Unable to work with patients, med students help frontline workers by answering phones, distributing PPE, even babysitting.
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When clinical rotations were paused, med students found new ways to support Rhode Island’s frontline health care workers.
Alexis Lawrence, MD, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine, clinician educator, at the Warren Alpert Medical School. A Brown…
Genetic testing can change the care, and the lives, of some people with autism.
Telemedicine builds bridges to better mental health for the state’s most isolated residents.
New center at Butler Hospital will study brain stimulation treatments for PTSD and other illnesses.
New program targets childhood obesity by helping whole families eat healthier.
An EEG-based test could improve patient pain assessments and reduce the over-prescription of opioids.
Regular walking may protect against heart failure after menopause.
With patients’ advice and new tools, a hospital aims to prevent all suicide deaths.
National group selects Rhode Island as a ‘learning lab’ state to prevent neonatal withdrawal.
Agreement establishes the Warren Alpert Medical School as the institution of record for Care New England.
A therapy originally developed to treat cancer could help children with this rare, fatal disease to live longer.
Researchers find some leukemia patients must choose between transfusions or end-of-life care.
An $8 million NIH grant will expand community asthma care program led by two Medical School researchers.
A Brown/Hasbro team is designing smart animatronic cats and dogs to help older adults with everyday tasks.
Study findings may help prevent inpatient psychiatric care.
Sickle cell trait may lower blood sugar readings, causing missed diagnoses and treatment.
But after 6 weeks, patients given opioids were more likely to still be taking them.
Two closely related three-year grants — one to Brown University and one to Rhode Island Hospital — will integrate extensive…