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![Interplay Between Sleep, Pain and Spinal Cord Stimulation](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/pain-sleep-spinal-cord-newsdesk.jpg)
January 30, 2023
Researchers from the Schmidt College of Medicine have unraveled the interplay between chronic pain, sleep and spinal cord stimulation, a treatment that uses low levels of electricity to relieve pain.
![FAU, Broward Health to Partner on Academic Medicine](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/fau-broward-health-newsdesk.jpg)
January 24, 2023
FAU and Broward Health have announced a partnership to provide academic medicine to Broward County, and to collaborate on education, clinical training and practice, health services administration, and research.
![Ultrasound Device for Pain Gets 'Nod' from Shark Tank and NIH Funding](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/pilitsis-lab-newsdesk.jpg)
December 14, 2022
FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine is developing a handheld probe using focused ultrasound that is non-invasive and non-opioid-based to treat back and leg pain in a physician's office and potentially at home.
![Researchers Inducted into FAU Chapter of National Academy of Inventors](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/fau-entrance-newsdesk.jpg)
November 28, 2022
Four FAU researchers representing engineering, medicine, science and Harbor Branch will be inducted into the FAU Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors®.
![FAU Lands U.S. Department of Defense Grant for Powerful Imaging Tool](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/electron-microscopy-newsdesk.jpg)
November 01, 2022
Researchers have received a $599,503 grant from the United States Department of Defense for a powerful high resolution imaging technique that can reveal nanoscale structures.
![Needs, Challenges for COVID-19 Boosters and Other Vaccines in the U.S.](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/covid-boosters-newsdesk.jpg)
October 18, 2022
FAU Schmidt College of Medicine researchers have published a commentary in "The American Journal of Medicine" to provide the most updated guidance to health care providers on boosters and vaccines.
![Study Shows Increasing Firearm Deaths Among Texas School-age Children](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/firearms-texas-study-newsdesk.jpg)
October 11, 2022
FAU's Schmidt College of Medicine and collaborators investigated firearm-related deaths in Texas from 1999 to 2020 and found 4,090 firearm fatalities among school-age children 5 to 18 years.
![FAU Receives $500,000 NIH Grant to Tackle Chronic Disease Disparities](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/ehr-nih-grant-newdesk.jpg)
October 05, 2022
With a $500,000 NIH grant, FAU researchers and collaborators will tackle chronic health disparities using electronic health records, artificial intelligence, machine learning and the Internet of Things.
![FAU-MAX PLANCK JOINT PROGRAM CREATES NEW M.D./PH.D. DUAL DEGREE](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/md-phd-dual-degree-program.png.jpeg)
October 04, 2022
FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and the Schmidt College of Science, along with the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, signed the new M.D./Ph.D. joint neuroscience program into effect.