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Tufts PA student Elizabeth Huebner at the entrance to Kopanong Hospital

PAs Go Global

Tufts Physician Assistant students are getting a new worldview, thanks to a clinical rotation in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand.
Illustration of a doctor and patient talking

Getting in Tune

Dr. Andrea Gordon, associate professor of family medicine, explains why doctor-patient relationships, like jazz, require a healthy dose of improvisation.
Boys filling water containers amid squalor in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Stopping Cholera in Its Tracks

Tufts researchers are testing bacteriophages—viruses that kill the cholera bacteria—as a way to halt the spread of the deadly disease.
Two dads playing with toddler.

Gay Dads and Stigmas

A new study finds that two-father families still face discrimination, especially in states and settings that offer fewer legal and social protections.
Test tubes in a tray in a lab

Antimicrobial Resistance Fighters

Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance to leverage strengths of the university and medical center to research mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and develop new strategies for treatment and education

Around the World with Epilepsy

Phil Haydon was just fifteen years old when he suffered a severe brain injury that resulted in post-traumatic epilepsy. Today he’s the Chair of Tufts School of Medicine’s Department of Neuroscience, and in November of 2021 he plans to set sail from Boston
David Farber, M95, and Muhammad “Mo” Feteiha, M95

Why We Give

David Farber, M95, and Muhammad "Mo" Feteiha, M95 rallied classmates to establish the Mark A. Engleman, M.D., Class of 1995 Scholarship in memory of their friend, who died in April 2016.
Illustration of a water molecule and cholera bacteria

Outsmarting Cholera

The tide is turning in a fifty-year war on a persistent strain of cholera, thanks to a team co-led by Tufts scientists and their research on the molecule cGAMP.
Connor O’Boyle, MG17 (MBS), M21, and Dublin, his golden retriever at the Floating Hospital for Children

Give Paws

For an hour every Sunday, Connor O’Boyle, MBS17, M21, and Dublin, his three-year-old English cream golden retriever, visit patients at the Floating Hospital for Children’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit