Medicine@Brown
Fall 2023
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Sunset Waves
Pismo Beach, CA 2021
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Stay Well
From the Dean: This issue of Medicine@Brown explores how alumni and faculty have dealt with burnout and discusses what The Warren Alpert Medical School is doing to address and prevent it.
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Out of the Blue
Indigo-derived drug shows promise in treating brain tumors.
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Slow and Steady
Mind-body practice can improve cancer-related fatigue.
They just slow down, causing mobility loss, study shows.
A new study highlights an unintended consequence of a popular tactic.
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Punch Line
A neuroscientist walks into a boxing ring…
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Join the Club
Adaptive golf clinics get kids with disabilities hooked on the game.
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Going Public
A BioMed start-up heads to Wall Street.
Ask the Expert: Jacqueline Nesi, PhD
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Early Exposure
Pathology summer program welcomes local teens to explore careers in science and research.
The Warren Alpert Medical School will no longer submit data to US News & World Report for its Best Medical Schools rankings.
Vitamin D levels could play an important role in psoriasis severity, according to a recent study by Warren Alpert Medical School researchers.
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Good Test Taker
ChatGPT can pass standardized medical exams—but lacks clinical reasoning skills.
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Words That Heal
Kindness is sometimes the best medicine.
Thirteen people will die today as they wait for a kidney transplant. Is it time to change how we think about living organ donation?
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You’re Not Alone
Facing unprecedented levels of burnout, clinicians are working together to topple systems and reclaim the joy of a career in medicine.
Ted Huey, director of the Memory and Aging Program, is excited about Brown’s potential to change the research landscape.
Why choose between medicine and law if you can do both?
Brown classmates head up sibling surgery societies.
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
By John Abramson MD’76, MS
Mariner Books, 2023
By John Abramson MD’76, MS
Mariner Books, 2023
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In Memoriam
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Momentum
Supporting community. Supporting research.
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After Burn Out
When you hit a rough patch, the only way out is through.