This weekend, Kelly MacDonald will fulfill her dream of becoming an Army doctor. After graduating from Alpert Medical School, the…

We say farewell to the Medical School’s founding dean.

A longtime local advocate for kids’ mental health care gets a national stage.

Which lessons will last a lifetime?

Luckily, there’s a doctor on the dance floor.

Anatomy of a PLME.

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The life sciences at Brown go under the microscope.

Can progesterone protect the brain after injury?

An old problem gets new attention.

Researchers show off NIH-funded projects.

Mutation may cause early loss of sperm supply.

Press releases often mislead the public on health issues.

Flowers have the power to cure or kill.

When the medical mission ends, what happens to patients left behind?

The doctors in What’s Left Out are rarely portrayed as heroic—and sometimes they’re the antithesis. How did they end up that way?…

Frustrated by the education system, an alumna founds a school for exceptional students.

An emergency medicine doc traces the evolution of the specialty.

Concussion diagnosis and treatment are notoriously complicated by their subjective nature. Lacking a measurable, objective diagnostic, physicians must rely on patients’ reporting of…

Yoga could lessen prenatal depression.

A new research fund will test the science behind ancient health traditions.

Abraham Horvitz, 103, of Providence, died January 27, 2015. A Providence native, he decided to become a doctor as a…

William Jenkins, 75, of Millinocket, ME, died February 27, 2015. He grew up in the Bangor, ME, area and, after…