School of Medicine

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Improving Release Process and Treatment Continuity for Incarcerated People May Help Reduce Opioid Overdoses

New research from Tufts University School of Medicine suggests critical changes to the process of transitioning people out of jail while on substance use...

Abe Bayer, Pilar Alcaide, and Sasha Smolgovsky

Biomedicine

Two Immunology Graduate Students Receive Two Research Fellowships—Each

The students in the Pilar Alcaide Lab at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences credit their mentor with helping them succeed.

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Health

What Are Autoimmune Diseases and What Can Be Done to Alleviate Them?

Some 25 million Americans are afflicted by these diseases as the body attacks itself. Tufts immunologist Pilar Alcaide explains what’s happening

University News

Two New Professors Land at the School of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine has named an international expert on diverticular disease as its new chair for the Department of Surgery, and an...

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Oral Health

Studying the Link Between Gum Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers at the School of Dental Medicine hope that targeting the bacteria that cause periodontal disease will one day slow the progress of Alzheimer’s

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Neuroscience

What Causes the Brain’s Emotional Hub to Switch to Negative States?

Researchers from the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences study the basolateral amygdala to understand how it helps the brain switch...

In this photo from 2017, physician Adam Normandin, MG11 (MBS), M15, listened to a homeless man at a Portland, Maine, clinic, as the patient soaked his feet in warm water and Epsom salt to treat frostbite.

Health Care

Helping Communities in Need While Training Doctors to Treat the Whole Patient

The Community Service Learning program through Tisch College of Civic Life and the School of Medicine offers medical students opportunities for hands-on...

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COVID-19

Lessons from Asia on COVID-19: What the U.S. Can Learn from Successes Abroad

At an event hosted by Tufts University School of Medicine, a panel of experts offered examples from Asia to show how increased trust in government and better...