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The official Bluesky account for Tufts University School of Medicine. Est. 1893. 📍Chinatown, Boston
Tufts Board Chair Jeff Moslow and Linda Moslow fund initiative uniting medicine and nutrition, with focus on menopause and longevity: a $4 Million Gift to Advance Women’s Health! 🔗 Read more:
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‘We don’t stand a chance’: Tired of seeing their symptoms ignored, women leaders spearhead menopause care renaissance - The Boston Globe
Tufts and Beth Israel Lahey Health are among the hospitals making menopause care more widely available.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/metro/menopause-health-care-funding-tufts/
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At TUSM, the new technology is creating unique learning opportunities for medical students and giving faculty a helping hand. 🧠 🔗 Read more:
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AI in PT: How One Professor Is Leading the Charge
At the School of Medicine, artificial intelligence is creating unique learning opportunities for medical students and giving faculty a helping hand.
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27 days ago
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School of Medicine experts explain pharmacy deserts and how consumers are impacted by thousands of shuttered drugstore locations. 🔗 Read more:
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What Happens When Neighborhood Pharmacies Close
School of Medicine experts explain pharmacy deserts and how consumers are impacted by thousands of shuttered drugstore locations.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/10/20/what-happens-when-neighborhood-pharmacies-close
about 1 month ago
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Researchers at TUSM and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences have found a surprising connection between a fungus associated with alcohol use disorder and the brain’s dopamine reward pathway. 🔗 Read more:
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Gut Microbiome Affects Alcohol Preference by Influencing Brain’s Reward System
Scientists find that Candida albicans, overly abundant in people with alcohol use disorder, triggers immune response that alters dopamine signaling in mice.
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about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Can a gut fungus influence how much we want to drink? A new
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study found that fungi in the gut may play a role in shaping alcohol-related behaviors – and could lead to new ways to treat alcohol use disorder.
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Gut Microbiome Affects Alcohol Preference by Influencing Brain’s Reward System
Scientists find that Candida albicans, overly abundant in people with alcohol use disorder, triggers immune response that alters dopamine signaling in mice.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/10/16/gut-microbiome-affects-alcohol-preference-influencing-brains-reward-system
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We all know that asthma impacts breathing. What may be less known is that the disease, which restricts our airways due to inflammatory responses, can be caused throughout our lifetime by a variety of things. 🌬️ 🔗 Read more:
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What a Respiratory System Expert Wants You to Know About Asthma
From misdiagnoses to new treatments, a School of Medicine expert offers a crash course on the inflammatory disease
https://ow.ly/EOYl50XbQha
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The Cancer Letter
about 2 months ago
"Ensuring everyone accesses cancer care equally requires more than just saying, 'We treat everyone the same,'" write Don Dizon and Binay Shah (
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https://cancerletter.com/guest-editorial/20251003_4/
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Sexual and gender minoritized cancer patients deserve better - The Cancer Letter
In recent months, federal policies have stripped away funding for research on sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) communities and blocked the collection of data related to gender. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site […]
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In Chris Dulla's lab, scientists focus on what causes epilepsy and how to develop new treatments. 🧠 🔗 Read more:
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Uniting the Best Minds to Understand How the Brain Works
Chris Dulla is bringing some of the best minds at Tufts to bear on questions such as what causes epilepsy and to develop new treatments for the disease.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/09/30/uniting-best-minds-understand-how-brain-works
about 2 months ago
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A look at how the body’s multi-pronged defenses work, plus advice from an immunologist on how to strengthen them. 🤧 🔗 Read more:
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Breaking Down the Layers of the Immune System
A look at how the body’s multi-pronged defenses work, plus advice on how to strengthen them from an immunologist at Tufts University School of Medicine.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/09/15/breaking-down-layers-immune-system
2 months ago
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TUSM Clinical Assistant Professor Supriya Rao, based at Lowell General Hospital, is quoted throughout this article on pregnancy and gastritis. 🤰 🔗 Read more:
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Gastritis and Pregnancy: What to Know
Treatment and management strategies such as lifestyle changes and medication can help you manage gastritis symptoms while pregnant.
https://www.everydayhealth.com/digestive-health/gastritis-and-pregnancy/
3 months ago
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Happy Labor Day! 🩵🐘
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Wildfire smoke is obvious, but its long-term health impacts are not, says Tufts experts |
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4 months ago
Seed oils have gotten a bad reputation lately, but the science doesn’t support cutting them out entirely.
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Seed Oils Aren’t the Problem—How We Consume Them Is
Nutrition experts separate fact from fiction on plant-based oils, also known as seed oils, what products to choose, and why you might pick oil over butter or tallow
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/07/14/seed-oils-arent-problem-how-we-consume-them
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4 months ago
Why don't we have a vaccine for Lyme disease yet? That was the question posed for Linden Hu, a
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immunologist and Lyme disease expert on the most recent episode of
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Congrats to Deeb Salem, Professor of Medicine, TUSM, Chairman of Medicine Emeritus, Tufts Medical Center, has been appointed Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Continuing Education Review (CCER)! 🎊
4 months ago
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TUSM Adjunct Assistant Professor Mark Ruffalo explains his new Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory (BPD-I™) for evaluating patients for the possible presence of borderline personality disorder. 🧠 🔗 Read more:
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Introducing the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory
Discover the innovative Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory (BPD-I™), a psychodynamically-informed tool for assessing BPD symptoms effectively.
https://ow.ly/nCRi50WjLm9
5 months ago
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Sisters Erica Perry, a student at TUSDM (D26), and Alexis Perry, a student at TUSM (M27), have found a unique way to bring comfort and connection to their patients: through music. 🎶 🔗 Read more:
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5 months ago
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🧠 TUSM celebrated the inaugural Ghahreman Khodadad Professorship in Neuroscience Lecture, marking the launch of the Khodadad Center for Excessive Pathological Selfishness (EPS). Dr. Emily Newman, the first to hold the professorship and a triple Jumbo, delivered a keen lecture!
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🎊 Exciting news: Malak S. AlThgafi, MD, MBA, has been proposed as Chair and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, with a joint appointment in Neurosurgery at TUSM. Welcome, Dr. AlThgafi!
6 months ago
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Members of TUSM’s Public Health program were proud to attend the sold-out MPHA Spring Awards Breakfast — joined by Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, a triple Jumbo and steadfast advocate for health equity in Massachusetts. 💙
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6 months ago
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We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Soma Sengupta as the proposed chair & professor of neurology at TUSM and chair of neurology at Tufts Medical Center, starting Sept 2025! 🎉
6 months ago
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Congratulations to Dr. Ron I. Riesenburger on being named Chair of Neurosurgery at TUSM & Tufts Medical Center! 🩵🐘 A leader in spine, trauma, cancer, and vascular neurosurgery—and a dedicated mentor—Dr. Riesenburger is advancing care and education. 👏
6 months ago
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✨👩🏾🔬 Already a powerful day at the Tufts Women’s Health Summit celebrating historical research, bold conversations, and visionary leadership — with keynote speaker Dr. Vivian Pinn.
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Pathogenic bacteria is bacteria that can cause disease. At
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, a physician and researcher is working to turn that pathogenic bacteria into a tool that could help some people feel better.
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Smart Microbes Use Pathogenic Tools to Deliver Therapeutics
A physician-scientist at the School of Medicine modifies bacteria to secrete beneficial proteins that could help people with inflammatory bowel disease.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/06/03/smart-microbes-use-pathogenic-tools-deliver-therapeutics
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June is Pride Month 🌈 At TUSM, we honor the strength, joy, and contributions of our LGBTQ+ community—this month and every month. You belong here.
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6 months ago
A new pipeline could help scientists discover unique combinations of molecules that increase the effectiveness of antibiotics against drug-resistant bacteria.
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Making antibiotics more potent against drug-resistant bacteria
Scientists find combinations of known antibiotics and other molecules that, together, have greater bacteria-killing power.
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From testing fellow students' reflexes to working directly with patients in clinical rotations, students in the TUSM Doctor of Medicine program (M.D.) spend their time on the Boston Health Sciences Campus putting their coursework into action. 🔗 Read more:
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A Day in the Life at Tufts University School of Medicine
From delivering physical therapy exercise instructions to testing patients' reflexes, students in Tufts University School of Medicine programs spend their time
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🧬 Today is World Autoimmune/Auto-Inflammatory Arthritis Day. 1 in 4 adults lives with arthritis. While food fads promise relief, research points to a healthier path: balanced diet, movement, and proven care. 🍎 Curious what actually helps? 🔗 Read more:
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Debunking Common Myths About Food and Arthritis
Debunking Common Myths About Food and Arthritis. Instead of chasing one dietary silver bullet such as pectin or fish oil, manage arthritis with overall healthy eating and regular physical activity, sa...
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6 months ago
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🎓 From biomedicine to public health and everything in between, our graduate students have crossed the finish line—degree in hand and future wide open. Congratulations to our graduate program Class of 2025! Your impact on science, health, and humanity is just beginning. 💙🎉
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Smile, Jumbos! 🐘🎓✨🩵 Today is your day.
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Congrats to the Maine Track Class of 2025! 🥼🎇 41 students celebrated in Portland as they prepare for residency—11 staying at MHMMC. You are the future of compassionate, community-centered care.
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Melissa Calica, a fourth-year MD student at TUSM, has been named a recipient of the 2025 Tufts Presidential Award for Civic Life—one of the university’s highest honors for student service. 🐘🩵 🔗 Read more:
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7 months ago
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🧠 May is Stroke Awareness Month, and we’re thinking beyond prevention. What does recovery really look like after a stroke? Tufts experts say it’s not a straight line—and it doesn’t stop after rehab. The brain keeps healing, with the right support. 🔗 Read more:
now.tufts.edu/2025/04/02/w...
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What Stroke Recovery Looks Like Today
Though it can vary significantly between patients, Tufts medical experts share what patients can expect in terms of recovery after they’ve had a stroke.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/04/02/what-stroke-recovery-looks-today
7 months ago
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Tick Safety Tips from Lyme Experts at Tufts ❗️ If you’ve ever found a tick on yourself or your child, you might have experienced a sense of panic at the sight of the tiny arachnid. And there’s reason to worry. 🔗 Read more:
now.tufts.edu/2023/05/02/t...
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Tick Safety Tips from Lyme Disease Experts at Tufts
It’s tick season. Faculty at the School of Medicine and Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine share tips for keeping the vectors—and their infections—away.
https://now.tufts.edu/2023/05/02/tick-safety-tips-lyme-disease-experts-tufts
7 months ago
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Beef tallow may moisturize, but it’s no miracle cure for wrinkles or acne, says Tufts Medical Center dermatologist and TUSM Assistant Prof. Farah Moustafa. Better options? Retinol or bakuchiol. 🔗 Learn more from Tufts experts:
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What’s the Deal With Beef Tallow?
Tufts University nutrition and dermatology experts share what evidence exists—and doesn’t exist—to support using tallow over other oils and skin products.
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7 months ago
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@BostonGlobe spotlighted a powerful moment from TUSM's Match Day: Victoria Ajayi, originally from Nigeria, was overcome with emotion after learning she matched at the Cleveland Clinic. 💌💙 🔗Read here:
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March’s best photos: Figure skating, Match day and high school championships - The Boston Globe
Some of the best Boston Globe staff photos from March 2025.
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7 months ago
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Shane Davis, M17, an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and a sports medicine physician at Tufts Medical Center, says a long-distance runner’s body is always adapting to the demands of the sport. 🏃🏾♀️ 🔗 Read more:
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What Running a Marathon Does to the Body
A sports medicine physician at Tufts University School of Medicine explains the injuries runners are prone to and how to prevent them on and before race day.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/04/14/what-running-marathon-does-body
8 months ago
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🎊 Congrats to Damian Archer and Ramnath Subbaraman on their official appointments to the Massachusetts Public Health Council! Appointed by Governor Healey (
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8 months ago
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It's National Public Health Week. 💌 Public health starts with each of us making a difference in our homes and communities. It’s how the places we live, work and play affect our well-being. It’s the way we are all stronger—and healthier—together.
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April is
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Month. 💙 Digestive issues may not be the easiest topics to discuss with your doctor, but having a conversation is the first step, says Laurence Bailen, M93, clinical associate professor of medicine. 🔗 Read more:
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Let’s Talk About Irritable Bowel Syndrome
A gastroenterologist wants IBS patients to know what they experience is very real
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
Very excited to be attending the Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice at
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. Black fathers are involved in the lives of their children and are just as important as mothers in this fight to address maternal health inequities.
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Pioneering gastroenterologist Sara Murray Jordan, M1921, aimed to make people healthier without sacrificing their happiness. 🥗 🔗 Read more about her life and mission here:
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The Woman Who Could Settle Any Stomach
Tufts University School of Medicine alum and gastroenterologist Sara Murray Jordan wrote a cookbook, Good Advice for Bad Stomachs, with recipes that aimed to maximize health and happiness
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/03/28/woman-who-could-settle-any-stomach
8 months ago
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#MatchDay
2025 is here! 🎉🐘 Congrats to our M25s for this momentous achievement.
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8 months ago
Congratulations, Maya, for passing your PhD defense today
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👟 March is
#NationalAthleticTrainingMonth
! With demand for PT services on the rise, TUSM & ATI are launching a first-of-its-kind initiative to expand the PT workforce & improve access to DPT education. 🔗Read more:
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As Demand for Highly Trained Physical Therapists Grows, Tufts Responds
Tufts School of Medicine and ATI Physical Therapy launch collaboration to make physical therapy education and career advancement more accessible and affordable.
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8 months ago
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🥼 This
#WorldKidneyDay
, we recognize the contributions of Dr. Andrew Levey, Professor Emeritus at TUSM and a global leader in kidney disease research. His work continues to shape the future of nephrology and improve patient care. 💚 🔗 Read more:
medicine.tufts.edu/news-events/...
9 months ago
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Exciting news! 🎉 Kevin Bonham & Cammie Lesser join TUSM as part of our joint cluster hire with Tufts Medicine — bringing expertise in microbiome, immunology, & infectious disease research. Learn more here:
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9 months ago
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🧑🏿 Join us for the 8th Annual Black Maternal Health Conference on April 4-5! Participants leave educated, inspired, and equipped to continue the fight for Black maternal health equity. 🔗
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9 months ago
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🌍🎉 Celebrating the incredible global community at Tufts! From research to outreach, our impact knows no borders. Join us this
#GlobalTuftsMonth
to explore the amazing work happening worldwide. Learn more:
global.tufts.edu/global-tufts...
9 months ago
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A TUSM expert is part of a panel tasked with shaping guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in adults. 🔗 Read more here:
now.tufts.edu/2025/02/24/h...
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How Tufts Is Helping to Develop the First U.S. Guidelines for ADHD in Adults
A School of Medicine expert is part of a panel tasked with shaping guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in adults.
https://now.tufts.edu/2025/02/24/how-tufts-helping-develop-first-us-guidelines-adhd-adults
9 months ago
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