![Comfort, Always](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/two-hands-clasped-351x185.jpg)
Hospice care improves patients’ quality of life, if they can get it.
![Shot in the Dark](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ask-cap-351x185.jpg)
Flu vaccines are a hit-or-miss science.
![P is for Prison Scott A. Allen MD'91, professor of medicine at the University of California, Riverside, left, and Josiah Rich, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Alpert Medical School, with Alex, a Sesame Street character whose father is in jail. Rich and Allen wrote in the Annals of International Medicine in October 2014 that "if incarceration has become such a common like experience that it has a home on Sesame Street," then physicians and policymakers can no longer ignore its impact on economic and health inequality.](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BEAT.RichAlexAllen_rsz-351x185.gif)
Scott A. Allen MD’91, professor of medicine at the University of California, Riverside, left, and Josiah Rich, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Alpert…
![Hang Safely Andrew Nathanson surfs off Nobadeer Beach on Nantucket. (Credit: Cheryl Nathanson)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BEAT.Surf264_rsz-351x185.gif)
A surfing doc helps prevent injuries in his favorite sport.
![The Coming Plague A_Physician_Wearing_a_Seventeenth_Century_Plague_Preventive_Costume_](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/A_Physician_Wearing_a_Seventeenth_Century_Plague_Preventive_Costume_WDL3957-351x185.jpg)
Disease outbreaks are on the rise, but so are prevention and treatment.
![Howard A. Hall, MD View of Van Wickle Gates](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/stock2-351x185.jpg)
Howard A. Hall, 80, of South Dartmouth, MA, and Providence, died October 25, 2014. An obstetrician and gynecologist in private practice and on…
![To Tell the Truth (Credit: Blair Thornley)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RESEX.Secret_rsz2-e1423853722109-351x185.gif)
A patient’s honesty has to be earned.
![The Blanket Sign (Credit: Jessica Dean Rosner)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/FIELDNOTES.PosBlanket_rsz3-351x185.gif)
In Uganda, poverty is sometimes a patient’s chief complaint.
![Truth to Power](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/HOLLENBECK-351x185.jpg)
When she stood up for America’s warriors, VA physician Phyllis Hollenbeck had to become a warrior, too.
![Alumni Album Cameron Lang MD'14 with her nephew, Cormac Lang. (credit: Scott Kingsley)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ALAL_Commencement2_rsz-351x185.gif)
Sights and scenes from Commencement/Reunion Weekend 2014.
![The Givers Jacy Worth, right, says her mother, Peg Jusyk, capped a long life of service, discovery, and engagement by donating her body to medical education. (Courtesy of Worth Family)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BEAT_AnaDonor_rsz-351x185.gif)
Students celebrate the lives of anatomical gift donors.
![Charity Begins at Home Sanchita Singal ’13 MD ’17, left, speaks to Caroline Troise, MD, volunteer medical director of the Rhode Island Free Clinic. (Credit: Mike Cohea)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BEAT_Freeclin2_rsz-351x185.gif)
The Rhode Island Free Clinic marks 15 years.
![Fresh Faces MD ’18 students gather for a photo at Opening Convocation. (Credit: Donna Arruda)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BEAT_convo_rsz-351x185.gif)
Meet the newest members of the med school community.
![The Man Behind the Malaria Vaccine](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mosquito-351x185.jpg)
A new tactic might take down the greatest killer of women and children.
![Ask the Expert: Ebola](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ask-cap-351x185.jpg)
Ebola viruses are masters of their attack.
![Job Well Done Stephen Gilheeney '95 MMS'97 MD'99, left, and President Christina Paxson at the BMAA awards presentation. (credit: David DelPoio)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ALAL_Openingawards2_rsz-351x185.gif)
It’s an honor!
![Lost and Found The Museum of Natural History and Anthropology, circa 1890. (Credit: Brown University Archives)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/JENKS_04_rsz-351x185.gif)
A museum comes back to life, if only for a year.
![The Healing Hand (credit: Blair Thornley)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RESEX-351x185.jpg)
When is it right to share our personal struggles with patients?
![A Clearer Picture Brain scans show atrophy of the cerebellum in a boy with Christianson syndrome. Researchers observed this symptom in several boys with the autism-like condition. (Credit: Eric Morrow)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BEAT_Christiansen1_rsz-351x185.gif)
New data provide a better way to diagnose a developmental disorder.
![Something Old, Something New Leech therapy has been practiced for millennia, but the FDA approved its use in replantation surgery just 10 years ago. (credit: 123RF)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BEAT_Leech_rsz-351x185.gif)
A plastic surgery success makes, and embraces, medical history.
![Branching Out (Credit: Mindy Oswald)](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Birds-cap2-351x185.jpg)
A new respiratory disease group unites investigators across disciplines with a common goal.
![A Doctor Poet?](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Montross-351x185.jpg)
She hoped to get accepted to medical school in spite of being a writer. Brown wanted her because she was…