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Treating cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

In a pair of tents on the grounds of a health center in a tiny town, Dr. Adam Levine is managing a cholera treatment unit where the staff still sees 10 to 15 new cases a day, more than a month after Hurricane Matthew.
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Brown awarded CDC contract to battle health care-related infections

Starting with a new three-year, $2.7 million award to help implement antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes, a University-led team will perform research and implementation projects for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at reducing infections.
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Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’

In Academic Medicine, two Alpert Medical School professors have examined new data suggesting that the number of student applications for residency programs has gotten out of hand, creating a problem that needs to be solved.
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Chinese medical education rising unevenly from Cultural Revolution rubble

A new research review chronicling the history and current state of medical education in China finds that the country’s quest to build up a medical education system to serve its massive population has produced a rapid, if uneven, result.
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Grant funds big-data study of brain connectivity

With more than $1.2 million over three years to study how complex brain networks process information, Brown has earned its second grant this fall from the federal BRAIN Initiative and shares significantly in a third.
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Infants use prefrontal cortex in learning

A group of 8-month-olds has provided evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the prefrontal cortex contributes to learning during infancy.
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Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA

Formaldehyde, a common toxicant and carcinogen recently subjected to new federal regulations, may be more dangerous than previously thought, a new study suggests.
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New NIH grants support child health research

Several Brown University faculty members are key participants in three projects investigating how early life and environmental exposures affect children.
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$2M grant to study simultaneous marijuana, alcohol use

Next year at colleges in three states with different marijuana use laws, a team of public health researchers will study why students often use marijuana and alcohol simultaneously.
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Nursing home residents who get palliative care consults use hospitals less

The first study of how specialist palliative care consults affect nursing home end-of-life care suggests that they are associated with much less hospitalization and fewer burdensome transitions, at no extra cost to Medicare.
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Protein may be crucial in many lung ailments

New research in Nature Communications implicates the protein TMEM219 in a pathway that appears to be important in pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and cancer spread in the lung.
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From DNA to disease, study describes rare, new brain disorder

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists shows how mutations in the gene GPT2 lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative brain disease.
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Brain scientists share in grant to study attention

Three Brown University faculty members have teamed up with colleagues at three other universities on a $6 million grant to study the neuroscience of attention.
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Task force may be too stringent in not yet recommending melanoma screening

In an editorial in JAMA, two experts including Brown University dermatologist Dr. Martin Weinstock question a USPSTF determination that there isn't enough evidence to recommend that clinicians visual screen for skin cancer, such as melanoma.
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New theory explains how beta waves arise in the brain

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Brown University neuroscientists proposes a new theory — backed by data from people, animal models and computational simulation — to explain how beta waves emerge in the brain.
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For frozen embryos in dispute, scholars propose guidelines

In a new paper, two scholars — one medical, one legal — propose a set of practical guidelines to prevent the bitter arguments over frozen embryos that have confounded U.S. courts.
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Meeting of the minds leads to brain science technology venture

After researchers spent years developing an artificial intelligence technology to monitor lab animal behavior, a team of recently graduated entrepreneurs is investigating its commercial potential.
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MRI technique induces strong, enduring visual association

Volunteers in a brain science experiment learned associations between patterns and color such that when shown the patterns later, they were still biased to perceive the color even if it wasn’t really there.
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A new ‘dashboard’ for Rhode Island’s overdose crisis

Full of practical, graphical guides for the general public and up-to-the-minute epidemiological data for healthcare providers and policymakers, a new website aims to use information to prevent overdose deaths
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Delirium at nursing home admission a risky sign for seniors

A large Brown University study finds patients who exhibited delirium at the time they entered a nursing home were significantly more likely to die or return to the hospital within 30 days and were less likely to recover fully if they returned home.
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