The Health Professions Scholarship Program prepares students for military service—and medicine. Six students at the Warren Alpert Medical School are…
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![What to Expect Shayla Durfey MD’19 ScM’19. Photo by Michael Salerno.](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Durfey-Shayla-MD-ScM-19-351x185.jpg)
A new mom pens a guide to parenting for her fellow med students.
![Getting to Zero Diane Block, left, and Michael Armey are working with patients and families at Butler Hospital to implement a Zero Suicide Initiative, part of a national effort to prevent all patient suicide deaths in health care environments. Photo by David DelPoio, used with permission of the Providence Journal](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/0516_Zero_suicide-1-351x185.jpg)
With patients’ advice and new tools, a hospital aims to prevent all suicide deaths.
![Anatomy of a Botanist](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Featured-Whitfield-351x185.jpg)
There are around 100,000 specimens of plants, fungi, algae, and the like in the Brown University Herbarium. Most were…
![Tell Me About Your Hair Women's Hair Stories](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMPRESSION-ElianaCMYK_Edit-351x185.jpg)
Bad hair day.
![Lean On Me GOT YOUR BACK: Scotti Pfirrman, left, and Tom Lopardo were among the millions of Americans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11. Now third-year medical students, most of their classmates were in elementary school when they deployed. Photo by Dana Smith.](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DUO9974-f-351x185.jpg)
In the military and in med school, these servicemember students find it’s the people beside you who make or break…
![Science is a Team Sport Illustration by Stuart Bradford.](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TranslationalResearchFinal3f-351x185.jpg)
The days of “science for science’s sake” are over. Advance-CTR is laying the framework for research that can be translated…
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A Supreme Court decision has troubling implications for physicians.
![Engineering Success BRIDGING THE GAP: Neonatalogy fellow Ravi D’Cruz (center) works with biomedical engineering students Kabisa Baughen (left) and Shannon Crowley in the NICU. Photo by Webb Chappell.](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Biomedical-engineering_edit-351x185.jpg)
Undergrads devise unique solutions to real-world medical challenges.
![The Magic Minute Photo courtesy Steve Brosnihan](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Bernstein_GoodNightLights_-650x867-1-351x185.jpg)
Look out over the Providence skyline any given night at 8:30 and you’ll see dozens of blinking lights. It’s not…
![Obituary: Michael G. Ehrlich, MD Michael G. Ehrlich. Photo by David Delpoio.](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dr-351x185.jpg)
Michael Ehrlich, 79, former chair of the Department of Orthopaedics and pioneering orthopedic surgeon, died July 21, in Providence. Born…
![Center Stage Illustration by Ken Orvidas](https://medicine.at.brown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/i581s1203-351x185.jpg)
How did humans evolve to have reason, consciousness, and free will? An excerpt from Kenneth Miller’s latest book, The Human Instinct.
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Harmful in more ways than one.