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Mapping the future of medicine
Medical schools are relatively new to the game of large-scale clinical research; however, they are sponsoring studies to test new therapies with increasing frequency. With its largest grant ever, Yale is plunging headlong into human trials and assembling resources to help clinical scientists focus on ideas—and leave the red tape to others.
With its largest grant ever, Yale is assembling resources to help clinical scientists focus on ideas—and leave the red tape to others.
Is the straight road too narrow?
Congressional demands for cures and accountability—combined with a flat NIH budget—have increased pressure on scientists to produce findings with direct application to disease. Nonetheless, there’s great value in cultivating the art of finding what you’re not looking for.
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A life’s work in Indonesia
Kinari Webb came to medical school knowing how and where she wanted to practice medicine. Now, she and her ecologist husband are working to bring health care to a remote corner of Borneo while preserving the rain forest.
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A theory abandoned but still compelling
In 1977 readers were enthralled by The Dragons of Eden, a book by the astronomer Carl Sagan that explored the evolution...
Pretty in pink
During the academic year, the stainless steel tables in The Anlyan Center’s anatomy labs hold the “donors” who have...
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