After private mini-concerts, hospice patients report less pain and anxiety and request fewer opioids. You’d expect to hear the high,…
Browsing: Winter 2019
What’s true and what’s bunk about pregnancy. Parents have been trying to choose the sex of their baby for millennia,…
Volunteers work to stem the tide of TB among the Rohingya. It was mid-morning when the bus slowed down. An…
Doctor and patient connect over a shared passion. On a sun-drenched evening last summer, I admitted an elderly woman with…
A one-time interim dean dedicated his career to improving how we care for older people. You could say he’s been…
Sarah Wakeman ’05 MD’09, an addiction medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, is describing one of her patients. He was…
The chief medical officer for the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Health and Human Services…
A surgeon becomes the patient. The bedside manner of surgeons is stereotypically cut and dry, but a near-death experience—his own—gave…
An NIH-funded collaboration is kick-starting research on the No. 1 killer of humans Across the city of Providence, an unlikely…
Wilma Sylvia Friedman Rosen P’86, MD, of Providence, died July 7, 2018. She was 89. A clinical assistant professor emerita…
A new center focused on inflammatory bowel disease brings high-quality care to Rhode Islanders. Melissa Cote started feeling sick a…
A cadaver’s spine crippled by severe scoliosis may be a sight only an aspiring doctor could love. And it enthralled…
Local teens get a firsthand look at health careers. Before last summer, Esther Duran, a high school student from Warren,…
Katherine Sharkey, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine and of psychiatry and human behavior who studies sleep and circadian…
There may be no one cure for ALS, which affects patients in different ways. ALS causes the death of motor…
Alcohol triggers a wide range of ill effects—from poor sleep to crippling hangovers to blackouts—yet few people are thus moved…
The human brain contains about 90 billion neurons, but Stephanie Jones, PhD, associate professor of neuroscience, doesn’t let that number…