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“Letter from Kathmandu”
In January 2004 Johnnie Yates, M.D. ’95, took a job as a physician in an international clinic in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The post offered a chance for Yates to pursue his interests in travel medicine, and a typical day provided insights into medicine in Nepal.
The rain starts innocently with scattered sprinkles—warning enough for street vendors to cover their wares and for pedestrians to seek cover. The sky darkens and the downpour begins.
The unseen wounds of war
As long as humans have waged war, the horrors of the battlefield have caused psychological damage. Since the war in Vietnam, this damage has had a new name—post-traumatic stress disorder.
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“Breaking the back of polio”
In the 1940s, Yale’s Dorothy Horstmann solved a puzzle that would lead to the first polio vaccines 50 years ago this year.
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A year at the helm
Since he arrived at Yale in 2004, Dean Robert Alpern has led faculty to a new vision of the medical school, with a focus on clinical expansion and the application of great science.
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From the Middle East, in the Middle Ages
When we check into a hospital, take our children to the pediatrician or undergo a surgical procedure, it’s likely we’re...
Tulane students find a safe haven at Yale
Dorota Ruszczyk had just returned to New Orleans from fieldwork in Kenya when she learned that Hurricane Katrina was...
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