Medicine@Brown
Medicine@Brown
A magazine for friends of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Medicine@Brown
A magazine for friends of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
In this Issue
The Spring 2026 issue of Medicine@Brown confronts medicine's hardest moments. When tragedy struck our community, our physicians responded to care for those they knew. We also examine the human cost of shrinking research budgets on global health, and the lessons in rural medicine from a journey down Alaska's Yukon River.
Features
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US Cuts Global Health Research: The Human Cost
US cuts to research funding are unraveling decades of global health progress and scholarship.
When Tragedy Comes Home
Brown physicians trained for years to respond to a mass shooting. But nothing could prepare them to treat members of their own community.
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Rural Medicine on the Yukon
As rural communities struggle to meet health care needs, two medical students look to Alaska’s Interior for a guide.
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Vitals
What’s new in the classrooms, on the wards, and in the labs.
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Committed to Memory
Brown campus leaders are preserving flowers from community memorials to create a lasting tribute and support collective recovery.
Instead of individual diseases, a new clinical trial will target the aging process itself.
New finding could improve patients’ response to chemotherapy.
New clinical trial data shows an at-home brain stimulation device can drive full remission for patients with severe depression.
Dominick Tammaro MD’84 learns the ultimate lesson: the importance of letting go.
Is whole milk healthier for kids?
Differences in how brain regions work together during sequential cognitive tasks could inform treatments
A new study shows Tylenol use during pregnancy dropped and leucovorin prescriptions surged after unsupported federal claims about autism.
Solomon Islands’ first surgeon to train in the US brings visions of collaboration to Brown.
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Horseshoe Bend
During my preclinical elective in planetary health, I came to understand landscapes like this as living systems that shape human health.
Check Up
What's new with Brown medical alumni.
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Top Sports Medicine Surgeon: From Brown to the Big Leagues
An alum helps top athletes get back in the game.
The making of a physician-scientist.
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In Memoriam
Remembering our community.
Departments
Letters, opinions, and more.
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Medicine's Human Touch: What Hands Reveal
Physicians hold their patients’ sacred truths in their hands.
For alumni, parents, and friends, reading this issue of Medicine@Brown will offer insight into what life is like in Providence these days.
We don’t get to pick the day tragedy will strike.
“ When we began, we wanted to help people with paralysis do anything they wanted—play the piano, type, play basketball, or speak again. These are ambitious goals and there is still considerable work to be done, but they are increasingly within reach.
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