Stories about "Health and medicine"
Seven things about Ryan Bavis’ research on oxygen’s effects on how babies breathe
Friday, February 3, 2017 8:00 am
A respiratory physiologist, Bavis' research has significant implications for treatment of premature babies whose access to oxygen is too low or too high.
What’s in a Lewiston name: Lown
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 12:03 pm
The area's southernmost bridge across the Androscoggin River was named for Lewiston son Dr. Bernard Lown in 2008.
Robbins ’11 is lead author of landmark paper on asexual coming-out experience
Friday, October 16, 2015 11:46 am
What started as a way for Nicolette Robbins ’11 to spend her final Short Term has become groundbreaking research on what it’s like to come out as an asexual person.
‘Love drug’ oxytocin’s possible dark side is the topic of $300,000 Bates study
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 12:23 pm
Bates neuroscientist Nancy Koven will use a three-year, nearly $300,000 federal grant to take a cold and hard look at oxytocin.
Bates hosts a talk on societal perceptions of infertility
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:53 pm
The Bates College psychology department welcomes Anne Belden for a public presentation on infertility on March 26.
Slideshow: Insights from a day with Thomas Goetz ’90, Renaissance man for the digital era
Friday, May 2, 2014 12:00 pm
A day with Thomas Goetz '90, an author and entrepreneur who has scrutinized humanity's dance with information technology since the early Internet Age.
Lectures to feature a mystery-writing mathematician and a noted inventor
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:17 pm
Bates presents lecturers offering insight into mathematics and medical technology on Feb. 26 and 28.
Intersections between health and culture draw Phillips Fellow Mohamud ’15 to Tanzania
Friday, January 31, 2014 12:37 pm
In Tanzania during the summer of 2013, Phillips Fellow Asha Mohamud '15 learned a valuable lesson about perspective.
U.S. healthcare “at a tipping point,” says Heywood Hospital chief Winfield Brown ’89
Friday, November 15, 2013 8:36 am
Well-timed against the failed launch of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchange website, Brown put a fine point on the economic forces influencing healthcare today.
Summer Student Work: Ladd intern Sullivan ’15 finds a familiar work culture at Cubist
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:00 am
Shelby Sullivan '15 contributed to the exacting work of drug development at Cubist Pharmaceuticals, where Mike Bonney '80 is CEO.