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Health care van rides a road less traveled
The Community Health Care Van parks in front of an apartment house with plywood nailed over the windows. Orange spray...

Biomedical engineering becomes a department, uniting several disciplines
In eight years, biomedical engineering at Yale has grown from a fledgling undergraduate major to the university’s...

At Liver Center, a vital organ gets its due
Poets and philosophers may rhapsodize about the human heart, but James L. Boyer, M.D., HS ’67, says it’s actually the...

Spike in blood pressure may make weight lifters vulnerable to aortic aneurysm
In a research letter published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association in December, a team of Yale...

A partnership that aids cancer’s migration
In the world of cancer-causing genes, Ras is a celebrity. Mutated versions of this gene appear in more than half of all...
Gene mutation linked to OCD
A mutated gene’s link to a rare form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is the strongest proof yet that...

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...





