Dialogue
“A passport to the young”
Early in the 1990s, psychiatrist and law professor Alan A. Stone, M.D. ’55, noticed a change in his law and literature...
IICAPS: A Home-Based Psychiatric Treatment for Children and Adolescents
by Joseph L. Woolston, M.D. ’70, the Albert F. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center and...
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
by John Kao, M.D. ’77 (Free Press) The author, a former Harvard Business School professor, offers a troubling portrait...
Means, Ends and Medical Care
by H.G. Wright, Ph.D., M.D. ’70 (Springer) The author uses the conceptual tools of cognitive science to analyze and...
LSD, mescaline and brain receptors
That the brain has specific receptors for various drugs is now an established fact, but it took a long, strange trip by...
Genomics and personalized medicine
As the sequencing of the human genome approaches its fifth anniversary, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. ’74, FW ’84,...
Breakfast matters, even if it’s just a doughnut
Conventional wisdom took a recess when Howard Taras, M.D., told an audience at pediatric grand rounds in February about...
Vaccines and the flu virus of 1918–1919
In 1918, with the world in the grippe’s grasp, researchers were desperate for a way to stem the pandemic. They turned...
From the editor: Starting point
In the fall of 2006 Bayer HealthCare announced that it was closing its plant in West Haven and Orange and putting the...
Why primary care draws fewer physicians
Two physicians lamented the decline of primary care in Yale Medicine [“Taking the e-road,” Autumn 2007]. Having been a...
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