Laura Stroud, PhD, of The Miriam Hospital's Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, talks about the link between moms who smoke during pregnancy and the risk for offspring smoking or being nicotine dependent.
A Center to Study Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Established
This is the first research center in Rhode Island devoted to examining how the stress and trauma encountered early in life can have lasting impacts on our health and wellness.
Study Supports Value of Video Games in Promoting Physical Activity
Research led by a behavioral scientist at The Miriam Hospital is providing further evidence that active video games, such as the Wii and Xbox Kinect gaming systems, can help sedentary individuals achieve more physical activity than traditional exercise.
New Portal Enables Patient Access to Clinical Trials
Brown University Health is pleased to announce a new portal linked seamlessly from its website, developed to enable patient and family access to information on hundreds of its active and enrolling clinical trials.
The federal government is helping create a research center at The Miriam Hospital to focus on the mental and physical health of children who are neglected, abused, and/or have food insecurity.
This important work, along with research encompassing infancy to the elderly, has been widely covered in the news media.
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