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Waiting for a heart, broker beats the odds
A Connecticut man sets record for survival on heart pump and receives a gift of life.
Even after his death, a skeptic inspires his legion of scholars
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., HS ’54, joked in his 400th scholarly article that he hoped to continue writing until he faced...
Yale group launches new effort to understand why organ transplants fail
By 11 a.m., Yinong Wang, M.D., is performing his fifth transplant procedure of the day. Each one is the same, and not...
Alcohol and the brain
Since the 1950s, when Yale scientist E.M. Jellinek pioneered the notion that alcoholism is a disease, investigators...
War and its impact on American health
For American society, the war in Vietnam was unlike any other. It spawned widespread protests, a questioning of the...
First the stud, then the sequela
At last, the news that horrified parents everywhere have been waiting for: piercing certain parts of one’s anatomy...
A lively debate about brain's capacity for renewal
Neurogenesis, an arcane and complex issue, has leaped out of scientific journals and conferences in the last few years...
A link from sleep to pain
A neuropeptide whose absence may be a factor in sudden sleep attacks also appears to modulate pain. A team that...
From “Fifteen years of Growth: Yale Medicine 1952-1967" in the Spring 1967 issue:
“Speaking at the Yale Alumni Meeting in St. Louis in January this year, Dean [Vernon] Lippard noted: ‘When Whitney...
From “Research in Molecular Bilogy," Winter 1970:
“A new department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry was established at Yale last year to promote the interaction...
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