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Private lives, public concerns
A patient’s chart can be many things. It is a compendium of ailments and treatments, but it is also a life story, full...
Smallpox vaccination study places administration’s plans for terror response in doubt
In the aftermath of September 11, Yale public health specialist Edward H. Kaplan, Ph.D., started thinking about how to...

Tailor-made medicines are within our reach, Collins tells genomics conference
Within two decades a new generation of highly effective designer drugs will spring from our improved understanding of...

Magazine gives students an outlet for creative work and a way to “unpack experiences”
M.D./Ph.D. student Kumar Narayanan recognizes that “not a lot of emotional experience in medicine is talked about.

When a death defies explanation
Even before last fall’s anthrax attacks, physicians and public health experts worried about the nation’s ability to...
A tool for predicting mortality among older patients, across populations
Any one of 10 conditions—ranging from congestive heart failure to major stroke to diabetes—suggests that geriatric...

“Unbreakable” bones prompt a hunt for genes
The DNA of an extended Connecticut family has yielded a possible target for the treatment and prevention of...

In experiment with rats, an engineered peptide helps the spinal cord regenerate
Building on their previous research, scientists at Yale have developed a synthetic peptide that promotes nerve fiber...





