Follow-Up
After a life in medicine, a career in show business
Brock Lynch, M.D. ’47, had been singing and dancing with the Young@Heart Chorus for almost 10 years when it was written up in Time magazine in June of 2005, and in Yale Medicine [See “Tap Dancing Through Medicine,” Autumn 2005]. Since the documentary Young@Heart was released in April, Lynch and the other performers in the 27-member Massachusetts-based group of elderly rock singers continue to tour to even greater acclaim.“Little by little, instead of drooping, it grew,” Lynch said of the film, which was released only gradually in the United States. Word of mouth and a free showing at the Sundance Film Festival soon accelerated the film’s popularity, and chorus members have subsequently traveled not only to...
From Other Issues
Spring 2009
A student-run free clinic grows and thrives
The idea was simple—free primary health care for the uninsured. Five years ago students in medicine, nursing and public...
Winter 2009
One year later, transplant program is thriving
On a crisp fall afternoon, Sukru Emre, M.D., chief of organ transplantation and immunology, had just looked in on a...
Spring 2008
Public health alumna’s water project reaches its first milestone in Nigerk
Just over a year ago Ariane Kirtley, M.P.H. ’04, described in words and photographs her work in the Azawak, a remote...
Winter 2008
Five years later, adjusting to the 80-hour week
In July 2003, when the national council overseeing medical education limited residents’ work hours to no more than 80...
Autumn 2007
A surprise for medical school’s first grandmother
Karen Morris-Priester, M.D. ’07, who received her medical degree on May 28, hopes she’ll be remembered for more than...
Spring 2007
Research in Iran yields clue to heart disease
In 1998 Arya Mani, M.D., HS ’97, FW ’01, assistant professor of medicine (cardiology), returned to his native Iran to...
Winter 2007
Ovarian cancer screening to reach patients
Physicians refer to epithelial ovarian cancer as “the silent killer.” With few early symptoms, the disease often goes...
Autumn 2006
Yale innovation in art of observation has worldwide reach
In 1997, worried that physicians’ observational skills might be waning in an era of laboratory tests, electronic...
Spring 2006
A new center to fight obesity
A decade ago, when Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., first started attracting national attention, his critics called him a...
Autumn 2005
A “perfume” to prevent disease
Early in 1999 John R. Carlson, Ph.D., the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology,...
Summer 2005
Antibiotic-resistant ribosomes unmasked
Five years ago, Yale scientists made a splash with the long-sought atomic structure of the large subunit of the...
Spring 2005
Compleat Pediatricians disbanded
After 48 years, The Compleat Pediatricians have taken in their shingle. The discussion group, formed in 1957 [“A...
Fall/Winter 2004
Wednesday night at the clinic
As schools around the country rethink medical education and look for ways to enhance clinical experiences for students,...
Summer 2004
Back to Africa
Early in 2002, Karen M. Schmidt, M.P.H. ’00, described for readers of Yale Medicine her HIV prevention work in...
Spring 2004
Running for governor, again
Throughout his eight years as governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro J. Rosselló, M.D. ’70, M.P.H., concerned himself with two...
Winter 2004
Settling down in Pittsburgh
A little over three years ago, fourth-year students Tanya Smith and Jose Prince embarked on a complicated venture and...
Autumn 2003
Providing care in a changed world
Exotic travel is nothing new for David Hilmers, M.S., M.D., M.P.H. Hilmers has already landed in dozens of countries as...
Summer 2003
Rolling on outa here
When warm weather beckoned this spring, genetics graduate student Matthew Weed joined fellow students studying outdoors...
Spring 2003
“Rounding It Out,” two years later
Two years after presenting “Rounding It Out,” her portrayal of 11 doctors and patients at Yale [“A Dramatic Turn,”...
Winter 2003
Insect propellant
Within hours of reading in The New York Times that the West Nile virus had been isolated from a flamingo at The Bronx...
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