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Epidemics expert learns firsthand about swine flu

Assistant Professor Mark Lurie, who primarily studies the HIV virus, found himself at the center of the swine flu whirlwind this fall when he and his family became infected.

Corporation approves med ed building

A state-of-the-art home for the Warren Alpert Medical School will be created in an older building, strengthening Brown’s presence in the Jewelry District neighborhood of Providence.

Med School’s Scott Allen: Physicians may have contributed to CIA torture

A Warren Medical School faculty member concludes, in a report issued by Physicians for Human Rights, that doctors and psychologists who advised the CIA on waterboarding have much to answer for.

Famous cat still comforts the dying

The story of Oscar, an everyday cat who made headlines by appearing to know, and to attend, dying patients at a nursing home will take a new turn this year with the publication of a Brown professor’s book.

He’s shaping up Rhode Island – and the world

Brown medical student Rajiv Kumar started small with Shape Up RI. Now the organization is growing in-state, thanks to a new grant, and around the world.

Medical students honored for creating LGBTIQ health awareness course

Jason Lambrese and Andrea Lach Dean saw a need to sensitize future physicians to the health concerns of lesbian, gay, and transgendered people. The course they designed, which premiered at Brown in 2007, has won a national honor.

A little champagne with your future?

On March 19, Brown fourth-year medical students attended Match Day festivities on campus and learned where they would pursue residencies for the next three years.

Brown med program connects community health care and careers

A grant designed to improve access to medical care for disadvantaged patients is encouraging medical students to specialize in much-needed primary care.

NIH’s Fogarty Center celebrates a birthday with a global-health grant to Brown

On September 2, Sen. Jack Reed, Mayor David Cicilline, and other luminaries joined the director of a major federal medical-research funding agency to announce a three-year grant that will increase the University’s ability to prepare students for health care work in lesser-developed areas of the world.

Tonight: Med student Caitlin Cohen ’08 vies for $100K ‘Do Something Award’ on television

Caitlin Cohen went to West Africa to do research, but she became a healthcare activist when she saw conditions in Mali’s slums. Tonight, August 4, she stands to win $100,000 for her cause.