John Curtis
John Curtis has been on the staff of Yale Medicine since 1998. He previously worked as a staff writer at the New Haven Register and the Waterbury Republican-American in Connecticut and at the Hudson Dispatch in New Jersey. He holds a masters degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His articles and photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and newspapers and magazines around the country. His journalism career began in Cali, Colombia, where he was a photographer for The Cali Chronicle.Contact
- Email john.curtis@yale.edu
- Phone (203) 785-5824
Articles

Winter 2013
Treating the mind as well as the body
Mark Rego, M.D., HS ’89, and James Phillips, M.D., HS ’74, traveled to Peru for the first time in 2004 as members of a...

Winter 2013
Violence in America
Few of us, said New Haven Police Chief Dean M. Esserman, keep track of how many soldiers die in Iraq and Afghanistan on...

Winter 2013
20th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction raises $27,000
Since the first Hunger and Homelessness Auction was held 20 years ago, what began as an afternoon event in Harkness...

Winter 2013
Zombies run amok at Yale Med!
Zombies are everywhere these days: on television, in the movies, and now onstage at the School of Medicine. “The...
Winter 2013
No shortage of breaking news
People often ask how we come up with ideas for the articles that appear in Yale Medicine. There’s no easy answer to...
Winter 2013
Gender bias persists
“Whenever I give a talk that mentions past findings of implicit gender bias in hiring, inevitably a scientist will say,...
Winter 2013
Lottery tickets may pose risk
Youngsters who receive instant lottery tickets as gifts tend to start gambling earlier in life, perhaps putting them at...
Winter 2013
Smoking bans and alcohol
Banning smoking in bars and restaurants can cut down not only on tobacco-related illnesses but also on alcohol abuse,...
Winter 2013
Enzymes at work
Yale scientists have captured views of an enzyme’s working parts that show the operation of its chemical mechanisms.“We...

Winter 2013
Levin’s legacy endures at the School of Medicine
When Richard C. Levin took office as president of Yale in 1993, the university faced several challenges. Among them...

Winter 2013
Hospital of Saint Raphael becomes a new campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital
About three years ago Marna Borgstrom, M.P.H. ’79, president and CEO of Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), and Christopher...

Winter 2012
Can a gene’s DNA be patented?
In the 1990s Myriad Genetics, collaborating with investigators at the University of Utah Research Foundation and other...

Winter 2012
From the editor: A clinic in Nepal and doctors who write
In the fall of 2006, Jason Andrews, M.D. ’07, then a student at the School of Medicine, approached Yale Medicine to ask...

Winter 2012
Auction benefits the hungry and homeless
The 19th Annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction, sponsored by Yale Health Professional Schools, raised more than...
Winter 2012
Energy institute at West Campus
A $25 million gift from a Yale College alumnus and his wife will help launch the Energy Sciences Institute on Yale...
Winter 2012
Hospitals to merge
Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and the Hospital of Saint Raphael (HSR) announced in September that they had signed an...
Winter 2012
Menthol cigarettes more addictive
Menthol cigarettes may be more addictive than cigarettes without menthol because they reduce...

Winter 2012
A message of hope for caregivers and patients
Lee Woodruff, writer and public relations professional, brought a message of hope to the School of Medicine in December...

Winter 2012
Dismantling the Global Fund
In November the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria learned that donor nations, including the United...

Winter 2012
Students report on summer research projects
Seventeen Yale students participated last summer in what one faculty member called a “life-changing” and “amazing”...

Winter 2012
Auction raises money for New Haven charities
The 19th Annual Hunger & Homelessness Auction raised more than $30,000 for New Haven charities in November. Proceeds...
Spring 2012
Yale Medicine goes viral
As one who came of age professionally in the era of print and attended a high school that kept academic records on...

Spring 2012
Second-years save the Yale system!
Egregious violations of the Yale system—mandatory class attendance and exams—drive a student to the breaking point in...
Spring 2012
YSM, pharma to collaborate
Yale and the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science &; Technology (COSAT) have signed an agreement to fund...
Spring 2012
When you gotta go
A strong need to urinate impairs cognitive faculties as much as fatigue or an alcohol buzz, according to researchers at...
Spring 2012
Abuse, neglect, and gray matter
Emotional abuse and physical neglect lead to less gray matter in adolescent brains, according to a School of Medicine...
Spring 2012
Orphans need more TLC
Orphans may require more TLC than children reared by their biological parents, according to a study by Yale scientists...

Spring 2012
Tissue from the lab mends a broken heart
Angela Irizarry was still in her mother’s womb when tests revealed that one of her heart’s two ventricles wasn’t...

Spring 2012
Reunion 2012
During the weekend of June 1-3, 372 alumni, spanning the years 1947 to 2008, shared meals at Marigolds, local...

Spring 2012
The State of the School
Among the many items Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., discussed with alumni at this year’s reunion weekend were the School...

Spring 2012
Distinguished Service Awards for three alumni
The Distinguished Alumni Service Award was presented to three alumni of the School of Medicine at this year’s reunion....

Spring 2012
Student health project offers blood screening
On a cold Saturday morning in January, dozens of people gathered in the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul...

Spring 2012
Salons bring faculty and students together for wine, books, and conversation
A few days after their return from winter recess, 10 second-year students piled onto a bus in front of the Sterling...
Spring 2012
99 Yale students in 2012 Match
The 2012 Match was the largest in history—38,000 applicants sought to match in 26,772 slots around the...
Autumn 2012
A modest man remembered
Arthur Ebbert Jr., M.D., would by all accounts be embarrassed by the issue of Yale Medicine that you hold in your...
Autumn 2012
Access to food improves
Healthier foods are more available in neighborhood stores in underserved communities since revisions in 2009 to the...
Autumn 2012
Blocking lung disease
A Yale-led team of scientists has uncovered a signaling pathway that promotes cell migration in certain forms of...
Autumn 2012
Acid makes bacterium deadly
Salmonella, which kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, turns virulent when it senses that its environment...
Autumn 2012
Genes and higher brain functions
A pattern of gene activity in the language and decision-making centers of the human brain is missing in Fragile X...

Autumn 2012
A journal’s 200-year history
When the first issue of The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and the Collateral Branches of Science...

Autumn 2012
Eliminating health disparities
“Your zip code is a more powerful predictor of your health than your genetic code,” David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H.,...
Winter 2011
A Week in the Life: Photo Gallery
In addition to the photographs we included in the print edition of Yale Medicine, we have prepared an online gallery of...
Winter 2011
A Week in the Life: Portrait Gallery
On Thursday, September 23, as part of our Week in the Life of Yale School of Medicine project, we asked photographer...
Winter 2011
Levin describes the state of the university
About 15 minutes into his Town Hall meeting at the School of Medicine in February, President Richard C. Levin came to...

Winter 2011
Hunger and Homelessness auction raises $25,000
Offerings that included California wines, fencing lessons, movie tickets, and an incomparable evening of sports or...
Winter 2011
A Week in the Life: Celebrating 200 Years of Yale School of Medicine
In recognition of the School of Medicine’s bicentennial, we chose to devote the Winter 2011 issue of the magazine to a...

Spring 2011
Physician Associate Program celebrates 40 years
Forty years ago, as the physician assistant profession was taking off around the country, the School of Medicine...

Spring 2011
Yale’s global health program celebrates 30 years
More than 15 years ago, as Albert I. Ko, M.D., was working in the urban slums of Brazil as a physician and field...

Spring 2011
The 2011 Match
ARIZONASt. Joseph's Hospital (Barrow Neurological Institute), Phoenix Ernest Wright, NeurosurgeryCALIFORNIAUCLA Medical...

Spring 2011
From the editor: A snapshot of the School of Medicine
Since I started working at Yale Medicine in 1998, no issue of the magazine has generated the response of that to our...

Spring 2011
Singers, dancers raise money for HPREP
With the help of an assortment of singers and dancers, the 18th annual Grannum Talent Showcase raised more than $3,000...
Spring 2011
Stop and Shop comes downtown
More than a year after New Haven’s only downtown supermarket closed, the Stop and Shop Supermarket Company has...
Spring 2011
Nanobiology institute launched
By early next year, research scientists in Building B-24 on the West Campus may be working on nanomachines that...
Spring 2011
RNA helps genes determine traits
A Yale study suggests that genes are not the sole determinants of an organism’s characteristics. The team reported...
Spring 2011
The brain’s molecular glue
The human brain has about 90 billion neurons, interconnected through junctions called synapses. Our brains form...

Spring 2011
Changing the language of medicine
“From the moment we learn to speak the language of medicine,” said Pauline Chen, M.D., HS ’98, “we are taught to...

Spring 2011
Mapping pathways in the human brain
The human brain has 86 billion neurons, connected by 150 trillion synapses that exchange signals through 100,000 miles...

Spring 2011
The best of times, but a worrisome future
“Things have never been better, and we’ve never been more worried about the future,” Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D.,...

Spring 2011
First African American women graduates, faculty honored
The night before the start of Reunion 2011, the School of Medicine honored its first African-American women graduates...

Spring 2011
Shelf exams are the stuff of dreams
Anyone who mastered the convoluted plot of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie Inception would have had little trouble...

Autumn 2011
Lasker Award recognizes research on protein folding
More than two decades of research into protein folding have led to a Lasker award for Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78,...

Autumn 2011
Incoming medical student first to receive new scholarship
When Jeffrey Low was a seventh-grader in his hometown of San Francisco, he went on a service project to a community...

Autumn 2011
From the editor: Health care for the uninsured, and encouraging physician-scientists
Many physicians at the School of Medicine have devoted their time and skills to providing free care for the uninsured....

Autumn 2011
Biomedicine in the New Century
In the signature event held on April 28 and 29 to celebrate the School of Medicine’s 200th year, 15 world-renowned...
Autumn 2011
Scholarship fund honors alumnus
Boston Scientific, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical devices, established in February a $1.7 million...
Autumn 2011
Hospitals explore merger
Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and the financially troubled Hospital of Saint Raphael (HSR) announced in March that...
Autumn 2011
Ghrelin levels linked to fertility
Mice whose mothers had low levels of ghrelin are less fertile and produce smaller litters, Yale researchers reported in...
Autumn 2011
Exome sequencing yields target gene
Yale researchers have identified genetic mutations that can trigger severe hypertension through tumor formation in the...

Autumn 2011
Army visits Yale to highlight its worldwide medical and humanitarian missions
To Afghan villagers, said General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal, soldiers in combat gear, helmets, and body armor who don’t...

Autumn 2011
Health and social justice are connected
As in the days of the “robber barons,” today’s North American philanthro-capitalists have enormous influence over the...

Autumn 2011
Transformative moment for health care
Although the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act faces legal and political challenges, it provides,...

Autumn 2011
“One of our own” returns to Yale as Farr lecturer on Student Research Day
George Lister, M.D. ’73, HS ’75, spent more than 20 years on the Yale faculty as a professor of pediatrics and...

Winter 2010
From the editor: Yale med alums and their chosen career paths
As the alumni reunion in June approached last year, our colleagues in the development and alumni offices noted that...

Winter 2010
Student loses long struggle with leukemia despite search for bone marrow match
Natasha Collins, a member of the Class of 2012 whose classmates rallied to find her a bone marrow donor, died on August...

Winter 2010
On the eve of class, a game of chance
On the last Wednesday in August, dozens of new medical students tried their luck against their classmates, second-year...
Winter 2010
Collins named to lead NIH
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. ’72, FW ’84, was appointed head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August,...
Winter 2010
Yale in global health consortium
Yale has joined five universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) to spur the...
Winter 2010
New strategy for swine flu
A Yale researcher has proposed a swine flu vaccination strategy that would minimize cases and mortality and reduce...
Winter 2010
How hunger blocks fertility
A molecule that may play a key role in obesity, drug addiction, and depression also turns off the reproductive system...
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Winter 2010
A Nobel for deciphering the ribosome’s subunit
A few minutes before noon on October 7, Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and...

Winter 2010
Yale mourns the loss of a gifted student and compassionate friend
Annie Le was a talented scientist, a caring friend, a helpful lab mate, and a fashionista whose click-clacking high...
Spring 2010
Infectious disease fellow slain in Branford: former colleague charged
On the morning of April 26, Vajinder Toor, M.D., left his home in Branford to begin his daily commute to the School of...

Spring 2010
From the editor: Alumni offer their time and wisdom
In February about a dozen alumni, as well as past and current faculty members, came together at New Haven’s Lawn Club...

Spring 2010
Back to the (not medical) boards
On two nights in January, in a lecture hall in the Jane Ellen Hope Building, a dozen students in medicine, public...
Spring 2010
Website tracks ARRA funding
Since February 2009 Yale faculty have received more than 280 research awards with a value of $121 million through the...
Spring 2010
Medical experts for media
Yale Medical Group (YMG) in December launched a website that offers access to 90 specialists in clinical care and...
Spring 2010
Nanosensors test for cancer
Yale researchers have for the first time used nanosensors to measure two cancer biomarkers in whole blood, opening up...

Spring 2010
Educating the public about science is an uphill battle
Sharon Begley, science editor of Newsweek, despairs of the challenge of educating the American public about science....

Spring 2010
Hunger and Homelessness Auction raises funds for local organizations
Tarot card readings, a vintage Epiphone guitar, a chance to challenge the dean’s softball team, and an afternoon of...

Autumn 2010
Incoming students immerse themselves in clinical medicine in new program
Making a diagnosis and suggesting treatment options would seem beyond the wherewithal of first-year medical students....

Autumn 2010
From the editor: Keep the letters coming!
As an alumni magazine Yale Medicine has a built-in hook to attract readers—our Alumni Notes page. We always like to...

Autumn 2010
Acrylics, pastels, and skin disease
During four days in April, medical student Alexander Marzuka, a member of the Class of 2012, had on display four...
Autumn 2010
Patients seek disclosure
Most patients and research subjects believe that doctors and scientists should disclose their financial ties with...
Autumn 2010
Lincoln’s gait, errant gene
Abraham Lincoln’s gawky gait may have been the result of a neurodegenerative disorder that causes a loss of...
Autumn 2010
Alternative to bypass surgery
Yale researchers reported in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation that they have found a...

Autumn 2010
Science and starlets vie for attention
Science news, said Emmy Award-winning science reporter Robert Krulwich, must compete for the public’s, and editors’,...

Autumn 2010
An alumnus describes his 40-year odyssey in medicine to students beginning theirs
The career of Lewis Landsberg, M.D. ’64, HS ’70, took him from Yale to the NIH, back to Yale, then to the banks of the...
Winter 2009
Two grants advance public health
The School of Public Health has received a twofold boost in the form of an $11 million grant from the National...
Winter 2009
Yale pays $7.6 million in grants probe
Under the terms of a settlement reached in December, Yale will repay the federal government $7.6 million after an...
Winter 2009
Fix-it kit for faulty genes
School of Medicine researchers led by Peter M. Glazer, M.D. ’87, Ph.D. ’87, HS ’91, department chair and the Robert E....
Winter 2009
Junk DNA and evolution
Humans can handle tools and walk upright thanks to a handful of letters in their genome, Yale scientists said in a...

Winter 2009
Downs fellows cover the world
For the first half of his 10-week stay in Eldoret, Kenya, last summer, Timothy Mercer just hung out. “I had to earn...

Winter 2009
Auction raises $32,000 for New Haven-area charities for the hungry and homeless
“Girls’ Night Out: Join Drs. Bia, Angoff, Vining and Hansson to enjoy a dinner and the sharing of gossip and wisdom. No...
Spring 2009
Economic situation worsens for Yale
In an e-mail to the Yale community in February, President Richard C. Levin said the deteriorating economic situation...
Spring 2009
Biomarker for lung cancer risk
A genetic variation could explain why some people have a greater risk of developing lung cancer, Yale scientists...
Spring 2009
Zimbabwe cholera outbreak has roots in corruption
When cholera struck Zimbabwe last summer, international aid poured into the African country. Despite those resources,...
Spring 2009
Lost in translation
Even as the number of Americans with limited English-language proficiency has continued to grow, many physicians try to...
Spring 2009
Elderly want say in treatment
Elderly patients with multiple medical conditions want to be involved in their treatment decisions, Yale researchers...

Autumn 2009
Health and ecology in Borneo
To explain why she started a clinic in Borneo, Kinari Webb, M.D. ’02, tells the story of a farmer on the Indonesian...

Autumn 2009
Downs fellows around the globe
Last summer, at the end of her first year at the school of public health, Leah Hoffman traveled to the Vietnamese port...
Autumn 2009
Yale, city address chronic disease
New Haven is the first U.S. city to participate in Community Interventions for Health (CIH), an international project...
Autumn 2009
Emergency medicine a department
The Yale Corporation granted departmental status in June to the Section of Emergency Medicine, which had been part of...
Autumn 2009
A new vanguard to address global health
The fight against disease in the developing world has often been waged not by public health professionals, but by...
Autumn 2009
Ubiquitous industry ties have risks and benefits
By the time they’ve reached their third year of medical school, said Eric G. Campbell, Ph.D., virtually all medical...
Autumn 2009
$4 million for stem cell research
The state of Connecticut in April awarded close to $4 million to Yale scientists to study ways in which human embryonic...
Autumn 2009
Markers for prostate cancer
Scientists at Yale and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven have reported a link between molecular...

Winter 2008
Yale closes on west campus
With the $109 million purchase in September of what is now known as the university’s West Campus, Provost Andrew D....
Winter 2008
YNHH among best in nation
Yale-New Haven Hospital has been included in the 2007 “America’s Best Hospitals” rankings published in July by U.S....

Winter 2008
On the wards in Uganda
In the infectious disease ward at Mulago Hospital in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, a woman in her early 20s lies on a...
Winter 2008
Yale joins hypertension network
Two School of Medicine scientists will join colleagues in Switzerland, France and Mexico in a collaboration to pinpoint...
Winter 2008
Residents fall short on stats
Most medical residents don’t understand statistics in medical literature, calling into question their ability to...
Winter 2008
Uganda clerkships inaugurate a new foreign electives program
Uganda clerkships inaugurate a new foreign electives program

Spring 2008
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...

Spring 2008
Public health alumna’s water project reaches its first milestone in Nigerk
Just over a year ago Ariane Kirtley, M.P.H. ’04, described in words and photographs her work in the Azawak, a remote...
Spring 2008
Yale joins in HPV vaccine study
The School of Public Health and the Connecticut Department of Public Health are studying the effects of a vaccine...
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Spring 2008
A campaign makes a stop at Yale University
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Child Study Center, where, as a Yale law student, she had worked on child...
Spring 2008
Big role for tiny RNA
Tiny RNAs discovered in “junk” DNA play an important role in controlling gene function, Yale scientists reported in the...
Spring 2008
Nanotubes can kill bacteria
A study to measure the toxic effects of nanotubes on human cells has led to a possible new approach to treating...
Spring 2008
Colon screening questioned
Colorectal cancer screenings for the severely ill may do more harm than good, according to a Yale study published in...

Spring 2008
Of gangstas, capos and accreditation inspectas
Following a tradition dating back to 1949, the Class of 2010 presented The Unaccreditables, its second-year show, in...
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Spring 2008
Auction raises $30,000 to benefit the homeless and hungry in New Haven
For 24 hours one day in November, first-year medical student Ali Batouli was at the beck and call of classmate Caitlin...

Autumn 2008
Pretty in pink
During the academic year, the stainless steel tables in The Anlyan Center’s anatomy labs hold the “donors” who have...
Autumn 2008
Provost leaves for Oxford
Provost Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D., is leaving Yale after 11 years to become the next vice chancellor of the University of...
Autumn 2008
62 YMG members in top docs list
New York Magazine’s 2008 list of the region’s top physicians includes 62 physicians from Yale Medical Group (YMG)....

Autumn 2008
A student’s warm heart and “amazing” smile
As the 96 members of the Class of 2008 processed to Old Campus for Commencement on May 26, they paused at the corner of...

Autumn 2008
After a tragedy, the medical school community mobilizes around traffic safety
On the afternoon of May 22, about two dozen students, faculty and staff from the School of Medicine marched from Cedar...

Autumn 2008
A gene to protect bone marrow from chemotherapy
In a new approach to cancer treatment, researchers are studying a form of gene therapy that may make bone marrow more...

Autumn 2008
Children, foster care and orphanages
When Nicolae Ceauşescu took power in Romania in 1965, he believed that his country needed a larger work force. He...

Autumn 2008
Bolero, dementia and the creative process
In 1930, when Maurice Ravel composed Bolero, his best-known work, he may have been in the throes of frontotemporal...
Autumn 2008
Chocolate and pre-eclampsia
Eating chocolate may lower the risk of pre-eclampsia, a dangerous condition in pregnancy characterized by increased...

Autumn 2008
Celebration, loss and an exhortation to dream
Commencement was a day of mixed emotions for graduates in the Class of 2008. As they celebrated their own passage from...
Winter 2007
Water, a jumping gene and Paul Beeson
This past spring we heard from Ariane Kirtley, M.P.H. ’04, who grew up in Africa and returned there after her...

Winter 2007
“A surgery to prevent HIV”
Since Kyeen Mesesan, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the School of Medicine, began her dissertation project in South Africa...
Winter 2007
Yale licenses AIDS drug
Yale University concluded in June a license agreement granting Oncolys BioPharma of Tokyo exclusive rights to develop a...
Winter 2007
New MR system at Yale
Yale will receive a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Center for Research Resources...

Winter 2007
New funding paradigms reshape research
Flat funding and a new research paradigm have turned federal funding of medical research on its head. After the recent...
Winter 2007
Smoking and nicotine receptors
Smokers may have a hard time quitting because their brains have significantly more nicotine receptors than those of...
Winter 2007
Testosterone vs. nerve cells
A study by Yale scientists has shown that a high level of testosterone—such as that caused by the use of steroids—can...

Winter 2007
Changing the ethical culture of pharma
The last five years, said Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., have seen the demonization of the pharmaceutical industry. Conflicts of...

Winter 2007
An ongoing disaster stemming from neglect
For Roberto Johansson, M.D., Ph.D., Hurricane Katrina was a disaster that didn’t have to happen. During a talk at the...
Winter 2007
Stroke, heart attack and firing
Losing a job just as retirement approaches more than doubles the chances of a heart attack or stroke, according to a...
Winter 2007
Kidney patients left out of trials
Although at high risk for cardiovascular death, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are frequently left out of...

Winter 2007
Beyond the white coat: training great doctors
In his welcoming speech to 100 members of the Class of 2010 at the White Coat Ceremony on August 29, Richard Belitsky,...

Winter 2007
“You are the guardians of your profession,” speaker tells new Physician Associates
Twenty-nine students in the Physician Associate Class of 2006 received their degrees at Commencement in September,...

Spring 2007
Research in Iran yields clue to heart disease
In 1998 Arya Mani, M.D., HS ’97, FW ’01, assistant professor of medicine (cardiology), returned to his native Iran to...
Spring 2007
New grant for rickets study
Yale University has received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal...
Spring 2007
Four named AAAS fellows
Four Yale faculty members have been elevated to the rank of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of...
Spring 2007
Training physicians—new ways of teaching in a changing medical landscape
For the past 32 years, Yale faculty from the Department of Internal Medicine have taught at 10 hospitals throughout...
Spring 2007
Cancer mutations common
Cancer gene mutations are found in about 1 percent of the general population, more frequently than previously thought,...

Spring 2007
Physician-assisted suicide is the wrong solution
At a time when life is devalued, when people are killed over necklaces or iPods, physician-assisted suicide ill serves...

Spring 2007
Is sleep no more than a cure for sleepiness?
In 1989, when scientists kept rats from sleeping, the rats started to die by the 11th day. By the 32nd day, they were...
Spring 2007
Higher risk for cardiac patients
About a third of heart attack patients also have an active, noncardiac condition that could warrant admission to the...
Spring 2007
HIV screening should be routine
Voluntary screening for HIV should be routine for all adults, not just those at high risk, according to a study by Yale...

Spring 2007
Downs fellows report on summer research
For Christopher P. McManus, a student at the School of Public Health and the School of Forestry & Environmental...

Spring 2007
Hunger and Homelessness Auction raises $36,000 for community agencies
The student-run Hunger and Homelessness Auction raised $36,313 in November for seven community agencies in New Haven,...
Autumn 2007
A generational divide, biomedical engineering and a new chapter in organ transplantation
When we were looking for a writer to explore a generational trend—the desire of young doctors to balance their personal...

Autumn 2007
Cadaver ball marks end of first-year anatomy course
On March 24 about 200 revelers gathered at the New Haven Lawn Club to celebrate the end of the first-year anatomy...
Autumn 2007
Tracking the Yale shuttle online
A new service has taken the guesswork out of waiting for the Yale shuttle. Anyone with a computer, a Web-based cell...
Autumn 2007
Policy benefits grad students
Any graduate student knows that juggling research, teaching duties and scholarship is challenging enough, and becomes...
Autumn 2007
Chlamydia more prevalent
Young women between the ages of 14 and 19 are getting infected and reinfected with chlamydia at a rate higher than...
Autumn 2007
A superbug from Iraq
Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq in the fall of 2006 were found to be carrying a “superbug” responsible for highly...

Autumn 2007
Can children tell the truth? Evaluating claims of abuse
How, asked Michael E. Lamb, Ph.D. ’76, should police, psychologists and social workers evaluate children’s claims of...
Autumn 2007
New treatment for SVCS
About 15,000 people in the United States have superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS), a blockage of the large vein that...

Autumn 2007
Anxiety penetrates Yale system! Students, faculty stressed! Deputy dean to the rescue!
What happened to the freewheeling, easygoing Yale system? How did stress enter the lives of Yale med students? Was it a...

Spring 2006
New buildings reflect commitment to sciences
The dedication of two new buildings on the main campus in October highlighted the university’s commitment to scientific...
Spring 2006
Brain data on the Internet
In an effort to help neuroscientists quickly find the latest information about the brain, the National Institutes of...

Spring 2006
Six at Yale named to Institute of Medicine
Six Yale researchers, five from the School of Medicine and one from the School of Nursing, were elected to the...

Spring 2006
A son of Yale and the medical school receives AYA’s highest honor
At the end of World War II, Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, took leave from his Army unit in Germany and hitched a...

Spring 2006
From Student Research Day to a scholarly publication and The Wall Street Journal
Last May at Student Research Day, Hardean Achneck, M.D. ’05, described a link between atherosclerosis and aortic...

Spring 2006
Emergency care in the wake of Katrina
If there was a good news story about Hurricane Katrina, it was the medical response to the disaster, said Paul K....
Spring 2006
Pesticide linked to infertility
A common pesticide may interfere with the reproductive tract, leading to reduced fertility in women, according to Yale...

Spring 2006
Study finds sleep apnea is a major risk factor for stroke and death
Although previous studies have suggested links between sleep apnea and stroke, it was never clear whether the increased...

Spring 2006
PA grads urged to keep learning
At their Commencement in September the 29 members of the Physician Associate Program’s Class of 2005 heard words of...

Spring 2006
Proposing a new paradigm as international health hits close to home
Each October, students in medicine, nursing and public health present their findings from a summer of research abroad...

Spring 2006
Still going strong—Hunger and Homelessness Auction nets $32,000 for local groups
Thirteen years ago a second-year student asked his classmates to join him in a fund-raising activity in which he’d...

Autumn 2006
A new degree celebrates research
Since early in the 19th century, when students were first required to submit a thesis for graduation, the medical...
Autumn 2006
Yale joins in AIDS initiative
Public health faculty at Yale will work with the William J. Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Ethiopian...
Autumn 2006
CDC funds preparedness center
To ensure a swift, coordinated response to disasters, disease outbreaks and acts of terrorism, the Department of...

Autumn 2006
Meet the new dean of public health
At first glance, Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., might seem an unorthodox choice to be dean of public health.

Autumn 2006
Ugandan doctors visit Yale in first steps of collaboration on medical education
In 2002 Majid Sadigh, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, made the first of three trips to the Makerere...
Autumn 2006
Fighting a lethal microbe
Scientists at Yale have discerned how the immune system fights the bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease.The...
Autumn 2006
Gene linked to social aversion
Knocking out a gene in the brains of mice can counteract an aversion to social interactions, according to researchers...

Autumn 2006
Public health plans lacking, although stakes are high
Despite the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent anthrax scare, the United States, said Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H., has...

Autumn 2006
Lessons from a pandemic that never was
In planning for a possible avian flu pandemic, said Harvey Fineberg, M.D., president of the Institute of Medicine, it...
Autumn 2006
Work, habits and health
Researchers in Epidemiology and Public Health have received $1.7 million from the National Institute on Aging to study...
Autumn 2006
Yale to study leishmaniasis
Yale researchers have received a $5.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for the study of cutaneous...
Autumn 2006
Obesity, AIDS and a shark’s gland are among the topics of Student Research Day
In the 1990s, Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Starr Center for Human Genetics at Rockefeller...

Summer 2005
From the field of battle, an early strike at cancer
Early in 1942 two young assistant professors in Yale’s new Department of Pharmacology, Louis S. Goodman, M.D., and...
Summer 2005
CIRA opens office in India
President Richard C. Levin inaugurated a new office for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on aids (CIRA) in...
Summer 2005
CIS contract renewed
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed a five-year, $5 million contract with the Yale Cancer Center to operate...

Summer 2005
Yale trauma training preps Navy corpsmen
When the Navy submarine USS San Francisco struck an uncharted, undersea mountain in early January, responsibility for...
Summer 2005
MicroRNA linked to oncogene
A Yale scientist has identified a microRNA, let-7, that controls an oncogene implicated in about 20 percent of cancers,...
Summer 2005
Smoking turns receptor on and off
Cigarette smoking turns on and then inactivates brain receptors that are critical to the effectiveness of...

Summer 2005
Humans change their world, with no end in sight
Over the last 20 years writer Bill McKibben has looked at the ways humans have altered the world around them, and he...

Summer 2005
Iceland’s national health service provides for all
In Iceland, universal access to health care is enshrined in law. As a result the country has no private health...

Summer 2005
Silence among doctors in the face of torture
Even as FBI agents and intelligence officers were warning their superiors that interrogations of detainees in Iraq and...
Summer 2005
Molecule linked to immune attack
A Yale scientist has found that blocking a key molecule protects implants, pacemakers, artificial joints and other...
Summer 2005
Yale to lead stroke study
The School of Medicine will lead a $33 million trial to examine a novel approach for preventing stroke—the Insulin...

Summer 2005
Balancing the bedside and the bench, and having fun along the way
As he delivered the 18th annual Farr Lecture at Student Research Day in May, Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78, FW ’83,...
Spring 2005
Kaplan named to IOM
Edward H. Kaplan, Ph.D., the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the School of Management...
Spring 2005
Yale joins national epilepsy study
Yale has been named a key member of a national group of medical centers that has received the largest grant ever for a...
Spring 2005
Alzheimer’s protein solved
Using X-ray crystallography, Yale scientists have discerned, for the first time, the atomic structure of a protein that...
Spring 2005
A molecular link between the brain and learning
“When axons send signals that are received by dendrites, learning is taking place,” said Mariale M. Hardiman, Ed.D.,...
Spring 2005
Using revolutionary technology to find “a rusty old ship”
After he discovered the wreck of Titanic in 1985, Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D., heard from his mother. “That’s all they’re...
Spring 2005
A moral argument for fighting diseases of the poor
Rachel M. Cohen called for a new approach to drug research and development based on need, not profit, in a September...
Spring 2005
Melanin can be good, or bad
It’s common knowledge that blondes and redheads need more protection from the sun to prevent skin cancer, but a Yale...
Spring 2005
Gambling and elder health
A study by Yale researchers published in The American Journal of Psychiatry in September has found a link between good...

Spring 2005
Former surgeon general urges PA graduates to “look for a calling”
Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.Ph., the first woman and first Hispanic to become surgeon general, offered...

Spring 2005
Auction raises more than $26,000
Among the first fund-raising events of the 12th annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction in November was a flag football...

Spring 2005
Downs fellows share a world of knowledge
Last summer, 17 students in medicine, nursing and public health traveled to Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the...

Autumn 2005
A call to professionalism
At the beginning of the White Coat Ceremony in August, Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., assured the 100 members of the...

Autumn 2005
Tulane students find a safe haven at Yale
Dorota Ruszczyk had just returned to New Orleans from fieldwork in Kenya when she learned that Hurricane Katrina was...

Autumn 2005
A “perfume” to prevent disease
Early in 1999 John R. Carlson, Ph.D., the Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology,...
Autumn 2005
Goldman-Rakic fellow named
Susheel Vijayraghavan, a graduate student in neurobiology at the School of Medicine, has been selected as the recipient...
Autumn 2005
Yale website designers honored
Patrick J. Lynch, M.S., director of the Med-Media Group of Yale’s Information Technology Services, and C. Carl Jaffe,...
Autumn 2005
Yale endowment earns 22 percent, as investment steward earns plaudits
News of outstanding returns on Yale’s endowment came as the university’s chief investment officer was already riding a...
Autumn 2005
New target for melanoma
Using a technology devised at Yale five years ago, researchers have found what may be a new target for treatment of...

Autumn 2005
In the stem cell debate, asking the right question
The intertwined debate that links abortion to embryonic stem cell research has revolved around the wrong question, said...

Autumn 2005
A new role for RNA as a regulatory molecule
In the last few years scientists have been surprised by small nucleotide sequences, microRNAs and siRNAs (small...

Autumn 2005
Fuggedaboutit! Transient Global Amnesia
A 62-year-old man led a choir through a flawless rehearsal and performance, but by the end of the day he could remember...
Autumn 2005
Alcohol lowers cancer risk
The incidence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) is rising throughout the world—in industrialized nations it ranks as the...

Autumn 2005
With the Canary Database, animals become sentinels for environmental hazards
Before the effects of mercury poisoning showed up in the children of Minamata, Japan, in the 1950s, cats were getting...

Winter 2004
Settling down in Pittsburgh
A little over three years ago, fourth-year students Tanya Smith and Jose Prince embarked on a complicated venture and...
Winter 2004
Late neuroscientist honored
In recognition of her pioneering work on the brain’s frontal lobe and her studies of the cerebral cortex and its links...
Winter 2004
Chagas drug licensed to nonprofit
The nation’s first nonprofit pharmaceutical company has licensed a new class of compounds from Yale and the University...

Winter 2004
In gleaming anatomy lab, more room to work and a new way of teaching
When the 100 students of the Class of 2007 donned their scrubs and rubber gloves on September 5, they became the first...

Winter 2004
Honoring an NMR pioneer
A June symposium, “From Molecules to Mind: Celebrating the Contributions of Robert G. Shulman to Biological NMR,”...

Winter 2004
Physician associate director takes on a new role with teaching, alumni as the focus
After 25 years as director of the Physician Associate Program, Elaine E. Grant, PA-C ’74, M.P.H. ’92, has stepped aside...
Winter 2004
Clozapine and diabetes risk
Patients taking the antipsychotic drug clozapine have a higher-than-average chance of developing diabetes, but recent...

Winter 2004
Another school year, 100 new white jackets
For the 100 students in the first-year class, the annual White Jacket Ceremony is a symbolic introduction to medicine...

Winter 2004
Put authority to the test, Commencement speaker urges physician associates
In his Commencement address to the Physician Associate Class of 2003, Charles A. Morgan III, M.D., associate professor...

Summer 2004
Back to Africa
Early in 2002, Karen M. Schmidt, M.P.H. ’00, described for readers of Yale Medicine her HIV prevention work in...
Summer 2004
New institute to explore cortex
The Kavli Foundation of Oxnard, Calif., has endowed the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale University to pursue...
Summer 2004
Hospital imaging goes digital
Film and paper will become things of the past as the Department of Diagnostic Radiology begins implementing a digital...

Summer 2004
Graduate school dean moves to Yale College
Psychology professor Peter Salovey replaces Richard Brodhead as dean of the undergraduate school.A little over a year...
Summer 2004
Enzyme linked to epilepsy
Small amounts of glutamate help the brain to function normally, but high concentrations of the neurotransmitter have...

Summer 2004
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...

Summer 2004
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...
Summer 2004
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,...
Summer 2004
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...
Summer 2004
Some vets better after 9/11
After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, veterans with pre-existing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showed...
Summer 2004
Cutting down helps smokers quit
Cutting down on the number of cigarettes smoked can help older smokers kick the habit, according to a Yale study.“Most...

Spring 2004
Marie Curie at Yale
When Marie Curie came to Yale in 1921 to receive an honorary degree, opinions among the faculty were decidedly mixed....

Spring 2004
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...
Spring 2004
New partnership in China
On a recent trip to China, President Richard C. Levin and other university officers cemented a program of exchanges...
Spring 2004
One paper, many implications
A Yale geneticist is among the authors of an article deemed by The Lancet last winter to be the most important...

Spring 2004
Renewed “vows” herald a stronger link between Yale and London
When a trans-Atlantic group of psychiatrists and psychologists gathered at Yale in early December, it was as much a...
Spring 2004
Honors for immunologist
Scientists from around the world gathered in November to honor the late Richard K. Gershon, M.D. ’59, 20 years after...
Spring 2004
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...
Spring 2004
Obesity bias a problem for doctors
Health professionals surveyed at an obesity conference in Quebec last year learned something surprising about...
Spring 2004
Same chemical, different reaction
Drugs designed to improve memory consolidation in the elderly may also worsen working memory, according to a study by...

Spring 2004
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...

Spring 2004
In earthquake’s aftermath, Yale physician makes a journey back to Iran
Five days after an earthquake devastated the Iranian city of Bam in December, Asghar Rastegar, M.D., professor of...

Spring 2004
A week of fund-raising nets $20,000 for the hungry and homeless
Thursday usually finds Interim Dean Dennis D. Spencer, M.D., HS ’77, in the operating room. But last November 20, he...

Spring 2004
Art class gives students of medicine, anatomy another resource to draw upon
On occasional Thursday afternoons throughout the academic year’s first semester, students returned after hours to the...

Fall/Winter 2004
Wednesday night at the clinic
As schools around the country rethink medical education and look for ways to enhance clinical experiences for students,...
Fall/Winter 2004
Yale joins diabetes trial
The School of Medicine has joined 11 other medical centers in a national study that will compare three treatments for...
Fall/Winter 2004
Eyewitness accounts flawed
Soldiers engaged in survival training had trouble identifying people they encountered during threatening and stressful...

Fall/Winter 2004
New travel restrictions bar Cuba rotations
For each of the past four years, up to four residents at Yale-New Haven Hospital have spent six weeks studying health...

Fall/Winter 2004
Neurobiologist Hockfield leaves provost post for presidency of MIT
When she embarked on her career as a neurobiologist in the early 1980s, Yale Provost Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., never...
Fall/Winter 2004
A conservative “hit list” targets aids researchers, including some at Yale
In the fall of 2003 Margaret R. Weeks, Ph.D., got a call from her project officer at the National Institute on Drug...
Fall/Winter 2004
How Salmonella survives
Yale scientists have discovered how Salmonella, a bacterium that causes food poisoning and typhoid, escapes the innate...
Fall/Winter 2004
Art and plague in the Middle Ages
When the plague reached Europe in 1348 it was seen as a divine punishment. How else to explain a disease that killed...
Fall/Winter 2004
Striving not to narrow, but to eliminate, racial disparities
For years health statistics have revealed a grim dichotomy—members of racial and ethnic minority groups bear a greater...

Fall/Winter 2004
Reunion 2004
Even as all the traditional trappings of reunion—the Friday evening clambake, the Saturday morning symposium and the...
Fall/Winter 2004
High-fat diet raises cancer risk
It’s long been a tenet of good nutrition that too much fat and animal protein can clog the arteries and raise...
Fall/Winter 2004
High volume not always best
The conventional wisdom suggests that only hospitals that perform at least 400 angioplasties a year should be allowed...
Fall/Winter 2004
Study suggests marijuana induces temporary schizophrenia-like effects
Anyone who inhaled in the 1960s can recall the effects of cannabis—euphoria, paranoia, changes in perception, an...

Fall/Winter 2004
At Student Research Day, encouraging a new cadre of physician-scientists
Among the 68 students presenting posters at Student Research Day in May were three who spent the past year doing...
Winter 2003
For Nobelist educated at Yale, “It’s like winning the lottery”
Almost a century after mass spectrometry was first used to analyze small molecules, a Yale doctoral alumnus and former...
Winter 2003
A long life, steeped in science and medicine
Elizabeth R. Harrison, M.D. ’26, one of the first women to graduate from the School of Medicine and pediatrician to...
Winter 2003
Three join Institute of Medicine
Each year a few dozen select physicians and scientists are named to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy...
Winter 2003
For an expert from Iran, reasons to worry about AIDS
An emerging epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Iran could have disastrous consequences for the country and the region, according...

Winter 2003
A futurist’s view
Every few months Richard M. Satava, M.D., visits colleagues at a lab at MIT where there's a coffee cup with his name on...

Winter 2003
A disheartening view of AIDS in South Africa
“I will give you a picture that will sound a bit bleak,” Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Ph.D., told an audience at a lunch...

Winter 2003
African dust brings nutrients—and toxins
For centuries winds have carried dust from Africa and deposited it on islands in the Caribbean and locations in Florida...

Winter 2003
In history of birth control, a male influence
Although birth control is widely viewed as a women’s issue, men have played a large, if unrecognized, role in...

Winter 2003
Brain scans reveal disruption in the neural circuitry of children with dyslexia
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers at Yale have found

Winter 2003
As the sperm turns, success
Although intracytoplasmic sperm injection—in which a single sperm is placed inside a mature egg—increases the chances...
Winter 2003
With diverse roots and much in common, Class of 2006 is welcomed to Yale
As with many of the classes that have come before, the Class of 2006 is a group of individuals with strong similarities...
Winter 2003
Be true to yourself, your education and your profession, PA grads urged
In her Commencement address, Ina Cushman, PA-C ’86, president of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, urged...
Winter 2003
Surgery program sails forward
Last February, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) threatened to withdraw approval of...

Summer 2003
Back to school with Colombia’s top doctor
Although he believes that Colombia already has too many medical schools, José Félix Patiño, M.D. ’52, HS ’58, is...

Summer 2003
Contract still unresolved, union strikers spend five days out in the cold
During a week of subfreezing temperatures, a heavy rain and a blizzard, thousands of Yale employees, including hundreds...
Summer 2003
NIH awards Yale $18 million to develop new technologies for proteomics research
The university has received an $18.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish one of 10...
Summer 2003
A DNA “mimic” to repair genes
A peptide nucleic acid (PNA) that mimics DNA holds the promise of repairing defective genes, according to Yale...
Summer 2003
Boost for protein, gene studies
The Center for Genomics and Proteomics, founded last year with a $200 million investment from the university, awarded...

Summer 2003
From the stomach to the brain: how a peptide hormone sparks appetite
In recent years neurobiologists have taken a keen interest in a peptide hormone called ghrelin. The molecule appears to...

Summer 2003
From pigs, the possibility of replacement tissue
With donor organs unavailable for most of the 80,000 people awaiting transplants in the United States, scientists are...

Summer 2003
An advocate for access, for all
As a child Tomas Lagerwall paid a visit to a “cripple center” in his native Sweden. “I remember seeing all those people...

Summer 2003
In medicine, a spiritual crisis
Medical science has, in the last century and a half, permitted miracles unimaginable in the day of Hippocrates, says...
Summer 2003
Seizures and drug resistance
Researchers have shown for the first time how long it takes to establish resistance to drugs that control partial...
Summer 2003
A new cardiac risk factor
Women with a history of pre-eclampsia are at increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study presented...

Summer 2003
Ovarian tumors need not cause infertility
A conservative approach to the treatment of a rare form of ovarian cancer, called ovarian germ cell malignancies,...

Spring 2003
On Russia’s AIDS front
On a cool evening early last October, half a dozen graduate students of psychology and sociology began knocking on...
Spring 2003
It’s a fly’s life (and a longer one)
Fewer calories may mean longer life, and Yale scientists working with colleagues at the University of Connecticut may...
Spring 2003
Hope for the sleep-deprived
Narcoleptics and those who are sleep-deprived may find comfort in a recent study by Yale scientists. According to...
Spring 2003
Measuring energy expended by nerve cells, Yale team finds it’s all in a day’s work
For the first time, a team of Yale scientists has quantified the link between the work neurons perform for sensory or...

Spring 2003
Nailing down the language of stem cell biology
Two words that rarely pass the lips of Irving L. Weissman, M.D., in public are “embryo” and “clone.” He has reason for...

Spring 2003
A tragedy of HIV exposure in rural China
Last August, Chinese authorities detained a mild-mannered, bespectacled physician named Wan Yan Hai and held him for...
Spring 2003
A step against smallpox
Travels abroad led James L. Hadler, M.D., M.P.H. ’82, to seek inoculations against smallpox at least four times before...
Spring 2003
New approach to ovarian cancer
The School of Medicine has joined in an international study of a new drug, phenoxodiol, that unblocks receptors needed...

Spring 2003
In autism study, it’s all about the eyes
When Yale scientists wanted to find out what people with autism looked at, they turned for help to Elizabeth Taylor and...
Spring 2003
Campaigns in the war on infectious disease
A total of eight Yale faculty members, CIRA scientists and researchers in St. Petersburg are working together on...

Spring 2003
International effort fosters a new approach to public health training in Russia
Since an initial visit to St. Petersburg in 1997 to explore collaborative work on HIV prevention, Michael H. Merson,...

Autumn 2003
In the footsteps of Watson and Crick
When hundreds of scientists gathered in England in April to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the structure of DNA,...
Autumn 2003
New appointments in provost’s office place science in the spotlight
New appointments in the office of Yale Provost Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., leave science and the medical side of campus...

Autumn 2003
A legend in the annals of Yale medicine returns, in person and on canvas
When new interns in the Department of Internal Medicine arrived in July 1964, little did they know that they would be...
Autumn 2003
New axons in mice
A Yale scientist has encouraged axonal sprouting in mice by removing a protein, Nogo, that blocks the regrowth of nerve...
Autumn 2003
A doubling of the human genome?
A new analysis of the well-studied chromosome 22 suggests that there may be far more than the estimated 30,000 genes in...

Autumn 2003
The human genome—more than a list
Among the estimated 30,000 human genes are more than 250 genes that are implicated in oncogenesis. That, according to...

Autumn 2003
From Seattle to Botswana, partnering to fight AIDS
For nearly three years Merck & Co., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Botswana have worked...

Autumn 2003
Reunion 2003
Although the theme of panels at both the medical school and the public health school reunions was the impact of disease...
Autumn 2003
Fending off delirium
Taking daily walks and talking about current events can lower the risk of delirium in the elderly, according to a study...
Autumn 2003
Carbs? It’s calories that count
Researchers at Yale and Stanford have concluded that cutting out potatoes, pasta and bread doesn’t necessarily...

Autumn 2003
Residents hold their own research day
For a couple of hours on May 29, the Fitkin Amphitheater resembled the Hope Building on Student Research Day—with...
Autumn 2003
SARS remains a moving target
The disease that emerged in Asia late last year, SARS, is a moving target, according to Vincent J. Quagliarello, M.D.,...
Autumn 2003
Medicine from the heart, as well as the head
Click here for commencement photosSheltered under a tent to ward off a driving rain, 97 students received their medical...

Summer 2002
Commencement 2002
A large class, an inspired speaker and a tall order - to do some good in the world.

Autumn 2002
Everyone loves the Yale System. So why can't they all agree?
When Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., first came to Yale in 1997, he made an observation that seemed remarkable. The...
Summer 2001
What the needles said
On a balmy day in November 1990, a battered van that once delivered loaves of bread to Yale University dining halls set...
Spring 2001
Learning for the long run
For a quarter-century the Wednesday Evening Clinic has offered steady care to patients and an unequaled lesson in...
Spring 2001
Clinical research "riddled with conflicts"
Protection of human subjects and the integrity of clinical trials are in jeopardy from the new economics of drug...
Spring 2001
The ethics of stem cell research
In 1838, before publishing his theory that tissue is made up of tiny particles he called cells, German physiologist...
Spring 2001
Harkness renovations heralded
A $20 million renovation of E.S. Harkness Hall has brought new plumbing, heating and electrical wiring to the aging...
Spring 2001
Benefit for the hungry and homeless raises $25,000
The eighth annual Hunger and Homelessness Auction achieved a number of firsts in November as it raised more than...
Autumn 2001
Sharks, salt (and a taste of lobster)
Few medical students can say that, as part of their education, they plucked a writhing dogfish shark from a pool of...
Summer 2000
A match made in New Haven
Finding the right residency requires stamina, endurance and a high tolerance for airline food (not to mention anxiety)....
Spring 2000
A tragedy's medical aftermath
July 6, 1944, a month after D-Day: More than 6,000 people sat under the Ringling Brothers Circus big top in Hartford,...
Spring 2000
In search of medicine’s shifting frontier
The forward edge of medical knowledge may be an elusive target for teachers, students and clinicians. That doesn’t...
Spring 2000
Deconstructing education
The breathtaking discoveries of the last three decades and rapid change across all of medicine have called traditional...

Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Neighbors
Photographs prepared for Yale’s Tercentennial celebration explore the work of health professionals and students and...

Winter 1999
A new prescription for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s popular governor and controversial statehood advocate, Pedro J. Rosselló, M.D. í70, has advanced...
Winter 1999
The mechanics of reform
In 1993, during his first term as governor, Pedro J. Rosselló, M.D. ’70, sought to eliminate the two-tiered health care...
Summer 1999
The Show Must Go On
Imagine Deputy Dean for Education Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67, (the real one) and dozens of his clones (second-year...
Summer 1999
A second - [and fourth-] year sampler
Over the past 50 years, student productions have parodied every facet of medical school life, from the ever-present...
Spring 1999
With an eye for detail, an expert on the lung shares his life’s work
In a basement office in Brady Memorial Laboratory, the evidence of a half-century of lung cancer research clutters the...
Spring 1999
A running conversation about children
What results when pediatricians and child psychiatrists carry on a 40-year dialogue about the care of their young...
Spring 1999
Patients, doctors and the bottom line
Market forces and a changing world of medicine have prompted Yale’s 650-member physician organization to take a closer...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Fulton, penicillin and chance
On May 27 of this year, in a nursing home in Connecticut’s Northwest Corner, Anne Sheafe Miller died at the age of 90....
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
A lifetime making mischief with DNA
Creator of both the first antiviral compound and a landmark AIDS drug, William Prusoff is a study in the quiet pursuit...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Goodbye, Dr. Gifford
After 33 years at Yale and two false starts as a retiree, a roundly admired medical educator calls it a day. Sort of.
Winter/Spring 1998
When house calls were horse calls
In a box in an office at the Medical Historical Library sit a pair of leather saddlebags, stiff with age, frayed from...
Summer 1998
Hunting down HIV
A Yale professor has engineered a virus that attacks and destroys HIV in cell culture. Other scientists at the School...
Summer 1998
A life of engagement
Until her death last December at 105, Helen Langner was the school's oldest graduate. “If you live long enough,” she...
Fall 1998
A path for prevention
When 20,000 of the world's top AIDS researchers gathered in Geneva in late June, one clear message emerged: Prevention...
Fall 1998
Back on Cedar Street, 600 celebrate John Peters, the Yale System and reunions
More than 400 medical alumni and friends and close to 200 public health alumni gathered in New Haven June 5 and 6 for a...
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