Medicine@Brown
Spring 2025
A fellowship puts an alum one step closer to her dream.
Care on the Cutting Edge
Life lessons from a fishing village.
Weak Signals, Weak Muscles
Research identifies a new target to treat wasting conditions.
An A+ for Kids’ Health
At an in-school clinic, faculty and medical students boost middle schoolers’ health outcomes—and inspire interest in health careers.
In Vivo: Kind of a Big Dill
Relieving med school stress on the pickleball court.
Ever since the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 first emerged in 1996, it’s “haunted” infectious diseases expert Leonard Mermel, DO, ScM, he says.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...
Suppressing opsin 3 in the brains of mice makes them eat less, research shows.
We Are Family (Medicine)
The first Ivy League family medicine residency celebrates a half-century of training physicians.
Eat Sleep Repeat
Teens watching their weight should also watch the clock, study suggests.
Backstory: Touch Some Grass
A Cut Above
To prevent botched circumcisions, this engineer-turned-family doctor invented a better device.
A Family's Hope for Cancer Research
Man vs. Machine
A Brown psychiatrist helps bring PTSD treatment to Ukraine.
Celebrating Match Day 25 Years Later
In Memoriam
Drug Discovery Mission
A novel course helps undergrads catch the research bug.
Exposure: Aelan Time
Solomon Islands, 2022
What's at Stake
NIH cuts will have ‘immeasurable impact’ on lifesaving research.
For People and Planet
A new initiative investigates how environmental changes impact human health.
A New Era of Inquiry
Medical students are tackling research projects across medicine, pushing science ahead in new and exciting ways.
The Call of the Wild
Humans weren’t made to live indoors. Could a dose of nature be the cure for what ails us?
The Little Engine That Could
Through research, clinical care, and teaching, the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center has defined the standard of care for OCD in kids.
The First 50th
The MD Class of 1975 reaches a milestone reunion.