Dialogue

How America can get its groove back
John J. Kao, M.D. ’77, M.B.A. ’82, does not even mention his medical degree in the biography for his latest book,...
Expert medical help now available to Connecticut school nurses via new website
School nurse Marcia Wilcox, R.N., didn’t have much luck when she used Google to search for information about learning...
An orthopaedic surgeon fights for diversity in medicine
When Claudia L. Thomas, M.D., HS ’80, completed her residency 29 years ago, she was the nation’s first black woman to...

Transgenesis and the Management of Vector-Borne Disease
by Serap Aksoy, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology (microbial diseases) (Springer) The author explains the reasons for...
How climate change affects public health
In 1967 U.S. Surgeon General William Stewart, M.D., announced that it was time to “close the book” on infectious...
A single-payer system is best Rx in a bad economy
A single-payer system may be the best way to provide health care coverage in the United States, especially when a...
From the editor: Two faculty members move on, but remain close at hand
Eleven years ago when I started as a staff writer here at Yale Medicine, one of the first people I met was Michael...





