Medicine@Brown
Spring 2025 Articles
Recent News
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.