Dialogue

Guiding patients through heart disease
Half of all patients don’t take the medications that their doctors prescribe. And the majority of cardiac patients...
Personal librarians help students navigate research
Second-year medical student Kurtland Ma ran into a snag while doing research last summer in Hong Kong: he couldn’t...
Nanoscale Technology in Biological Systems
by Ralph S. Greco, M.D. ’68, HS ’73, et al. (CRC Press) This book presents the latest information on the interface...

Songs From the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors
by Charles Barber, M.H.A., associate of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (University of Nebraska...

In the stem cell debate, asking the right question
The intertwined debate that links abortion to embryonic stem cell research has revolved around the wrong question, said...

A new role for RNA as a regulatory molecule
In the last few years scientists have been surprised by small nucleotide sequences, microRNAs and siRNAs (small...
Nostalgia of another kind
In 1980, years after the last troops returned home from Vietnam, the military and medical establishments put a name on...

Article ignored ethical aspects of stem cell research
I was disappointed with the Chronicle piece by Marc Wortman [“For Stem Cell Researcher, Connecticut’s Initiative Offers...




