How Do We Learn From Success?
Study shows where in the brain primates log correct outcomes; findings could improve TBI care.
Author David Orenstein
No More Than Skin Deep?
Study casts doubt about link between eczema and cardiovascular disease.
More Than Half of RI Overdose Deaths Due to Fentanyl
Feared by drug users but hard to avoid, the powerful opioid takes a mounting toll.
Risk Factors Predict Hospitalization of Kids with Autism
Study findings may help prevent inpatient psychiatric care.
Primary Interest
Unique primary care residency program hangs in budget balance, despite primary care shortage.
As the Worm Turns
In experiments with college students and lab worms, scientists find new genetic clues to sleep.
Mind the (Gender) Gap
Mindfulness class helps women, but not men, overcome a downcast mood, study finds.
From Bench to Market
New biomedical innovation fund makes two grants to accelerate the commercialization of technologies.
Bait and Switch
Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on,’ research switches it back to ‘off.’
Back to Bed
Early school starts pit teens in a conflict between society, biology.
Maximizing Diversity
New federal grant expands initiative to increase PhD student diversity beyond the life sciences.
Meeting Their Match
For medical students, the run up to Match Day is a marathon, and it’s tilting…
For-profit Comeback?
Long discouraged, for-profit medical education has established a renewed foothold in the US.
Test Could Misdiagnose Diabetes in African-Americans
Sickle cell trait may lower blood sugar readings, causing missed diagnoses and treatment.
An Ethical Dilemma
New technology could allow creation of fertilized embryos using non-reproductive cells. But at what cost?
Battling Deadly Fungi
Study reveals workings of immune response to deadly fungal infections.
Opioids, NSAIDs No Different for Chronic Pain after Crashes
But after 6 weeks, patients given opioids were more likely to still be taking them.
Tackling Disease after Hurricane Matthew
Alpert Medical School professor Adam Levine answers questions about managing cholera in Haiti.
Diagnosis: ‘Residency Placement Fever’
The number of student applications for residency programs has gotten out of hand, researchers say.
Catch Them If You Can
Chinese medical education is rising, rapidly but unevenly, from Cultural Revolution rubble.
Study describes new brain disorder
Researchers show how mutations lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative disease.
Scholarship and Service
In medicine and the military, students find their calling.
Students Learn to Care for Opioid-using Patients
Amid epidemic, Rhode Island health care students get real-world training.
New findings about the genes that cause aging
Whether a creature is a worm, a fly, a mouse, or a human, death inevitably…
Medical School Wins Grant to Teach Addiction Screening
Two closely related three-year grants — one to Brown University and one to Rhode Island…