Dialogue
Dyslexia's hidden contours
At least one child in five has dyslexia, a congenital “wiring glitch” in the brain that makes it hard to master what...
Medical library makes the transition from print to electronic journals
These days a physician reading a medical journal is as likely to be peering at a monitor as paging through a magazine....
For My Next Act: Women Scripting Life After Fifty
by Karen Baar, M.P.H. ’81 (Rodale Press) Speaking partly from her own experience of a midlife divorce, Baar describes...
Dermatology
by Jean L. Bolognia, M.D. ’80, HS ’84, professor of dermatology, Joseph L. Jorizzo and Ronald P. Rapini (Mosby) This...
Merging data sets to fight human disease
The sequencing of the human genome has spawned a wealth of knowledge, much of it now available online. According to...
Biomedical research for the world’s neediest
In 1990 a drug called eflornithine came on the market to treat African sleeping sickness. But a drug marketed to...
Stumbling across water channels, and a Nobel Prize
In two talks on campus in March Peter C. Agre, M.D., noted with amusement that when he was applying to medical schools,...
With acupuncture, an integrated view of the body
Acupuncture entered the American consciousness in 1972, when a journalist on President Nixon’s trip to China fell ill...
Ethical decisions are not always unanimous
As a former Yale house officer trained at Yale nearly 50 years ago, I want to congratulate the bioethics program...
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