Dialogue
Total Skin: The Definitive Guide to Whole Skin Care for Life
by David J. Leffell, M.D., professor of dermatology and surgery, Hyperion Books (N.Y.), 2000.
Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child
by Kyle D. Pruett, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry in the Child Study Center, Free Press (N.Y.), 2000.
Preventive Cardiology
edited by Nathan D. Wong, M.P.H. ’87, Henry R. Black, M.D., HS ’75, and Julius M. Gardin, M.D., McGraw Hill (N.Y.),...
At Student Research Day, a primer on the scientific method
When medical student Edwin Anderson of Wilmington, N.C., wrote his Yale thesis in 1837, he would not have expected it...
An organizing principle for cancer therapeutics
As knowledge of the human genome advances, physicians are finding ways to tailor cancer prevention and treatment to...
The uneven distribution of health care
Wealth is more concentrated in Latin America and poverty rates are four times those of countries with similar gross...
Where Harley Street crosses Fleet
As editor of The Lancet, Britain’s leading medical journal, Richard Horton, M.D., finds himself straddling two worlds....
Communicating in the clinic, across cultures
Language and culture can come between patients and caregivers, sometimes with disastrous clinical consequences, said...
The early days of antibiotics
To the editor:I read with great interest John Curtis’ recent article on the first use of penicillin in this country...
Before penicillin, the sulfa drugs
To the editor:Your story on the first use of penicillin bought back memories of another first use, an earlier one, that...
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