PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — As mindfulness-based health interventions increase in popularity, Brown University is set to launch a new center for research and public service focused on increasing the quality of the evidence base and promoting adoption of well-proven mindfulness practices.

"Healthcare Access in an Uncertain Time"
Thursday 9/28

96 new graduate students have begun their public health journey at Brown University! The School of Public Health welcomed them with orientation activities designed to help them find their bearings—in the School, and in their new home state. Students were welcomed by Dean Fox Wetle, who explained the School’s three-pronged mission of Education, Research, and Service. She encouraged students to take advantage of all the resources available to them and to seek out opportunities for community service.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new simulation of how the costs and the course of the dementia epidemic affect U.S. families finds that neurodegenerative conditions can more than double the health care expenditures of aging and that the vast majority of that financial burden remains with families rather than government insurance programs. READ MORE

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Legally prescribed opioids can be an effective treatment for pain, but they are also the root cause of many of the cases of addiction and overdose deaths that have reached epidemic levels in the U.S.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — When the U.S.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study projects that if climate change continues unabated, heat-related deaths will rise dramatically in 10 major U.S. metropolitan areas compared to if the predicted increase in global warming is substantially curbed and cities take steps to adapt.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The fact that vaccines typically don’t work as well in older people presents a challenge to influenza vaccine makers, particularly because the illness often results in serious respiratory infections in frail patients such as elderly nursing home residents.