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Making cancer personal
The Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven is built around a new philosophy of patient care.
The new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven is built around a new philosophy of patient care.
From Cedar Street to Capitol Hill
Some med school alumni effect change not one-on-one but through health policy, and on a grand scale.
Doctors for America
In 2007, when Vivek Murthy, M.D., ’03, M.B.A. ’03, an internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, was working on then-candidate Barack Obama’s New England steering committee, he noted how few physicians were involved.
From Other Issues
Winter 2013
Yale scientists and a patient’s family join forces to find a cure
Chloe Kiev, an otherwise perfect baby, was born with a troubling trait—a very loud heart murmur. It was so loud, in...
Winter 2013
A triathlete’s long road
There was not a cloud in the sky on October 8, 2011, when Colleen Kelly Alexander hopped on her bike for the 10-mile...
Winter 2013
Junk no more
R.I.P., junk DNA: not the DNA as such, but the moniker that has described it in a misleading fashion for years....
Winter 2013
Yale’s Epic challenge
In early October, Gary E. Friedlaender, M.D., a specialist in musculoskeletal oncology who chairs the Department of...
Autumn 2012
“A gentle man”
When Leon E. Rosenberg, M.D., HS ’63, became the dean in 1984, he immediately asked Arthur Ebbert Jr., M.D., to stay on...
Autumn 2012
Yale doctors around the world
As a medical student in South India in the mid-1980s, Unni Karunakara, M.P.H. ’95, Dr.Ph., read a magazine article that...
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
Scholars work toward healthy communities
When Oni Blackstock, M.D., arrived in New Haven in the summer of 2010 to begin her fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson...
Winter 2012
A 21st-century NGO
The last time Ryan Schwarz, M.D. ’11, M.B.A. ’11, was in Kathmandu, he told a Nepali man that he was traveling to...
Winter 2012
Doctors who write
Making the first cut in a surgical patient shares something with writing the first line of an essay, says surgeon and...
Autumn 2011
Medical care for the uninsured
Germán León’s left eye was bothering him. It was swollen and although it didn’t hurt, it got tired when he was reading....
Autumn 2011
Is the physician-scientist an endangered species?
One of the challenges of interviewing Danny Balkin is that he keeps asking the questions—about the writing process, the...
Spring 2011
The high cost of a medical education
In the summer of 1957, Warren D. Widmann, M.D. ’61, HS ’67, earned his first year’s tuition for the School of Medicine...
Spring 2011
Medicine and the military
Scott Hines, M.D. ’99, made quite an impression when he showed up for his admissions interview at the School of...
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...
Autumn 2010
Transplant innovations give more patients second chances
Some of the first patients Sukru Emre, M.D., evaluated for transplant after his arrival in New Haven had already been...
Autumn 2010
Improving the lot of women in medicine
Gail D’Onofrio, M.D., M.S., wanted to be a physician for as long as she can remember, but after graduating from Duke...
Autumn 2010
When medicine meets the business world
The symptoms emerge in early childhood. A previously healthy boy starts to have trouble in school. Soon his hearing and...
Spring 2010
Biotech after the bust
After the U.S. and world economies faltered in the fall of 2008, it became clear that future plans for Yale’s various...
Spring 2010
Science by Design
After 15 years in his warren of offices and lab space on the sixth floor of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public...
Autumn 2009
Pioneering the West Campus
The Center for High Throughput Cell Biology becomes the first scientific team at West Campus.
Autumn 2009
Yale’s Physician Associate Program nears 40
As it approaches its 40th year, the PA Program fills a niche in American medicine.
Spring 2009
200 Years of Medicine at Yale
Nearly 200 years ago, in October 1810, the Connecticut legislature passed a bill establishing the Medical Institution...
Spring 2009
How a rock 'n' roll scientist built a better mouse
By inserting human genes into mice, Richard Flavell and his team are creating a mouse with a working human immune...
Spring 2009
When scientists become artists
Physicians once relied on seeing, hearing and touching a patient to make a diagnosis. Technology has enhanced those...
Winter 2009
As medical center grows, so grows the city
On Saturday, April 19, 2008, a month before she was to graduate from the School of Medicine, Mila Rainof, M.D. ’08,...
Winter 2009
Science and culture in a strange land
As the world gets smaller, the Committee on International Health asks whether Downs fellows can find a foreign...
Winter 2009
The lost art of the physical exam
Physicians once relied on seeing, hearing and touching a patient to make a diagnosis. Technology has enhanced and...
Autumn 2008
Mapping the future of medicine
With its largest grant ever, Yale is assembling resources to help clinical scientists focus on ideas—and leave the red...
Autumn 2008
Is the straight road too narrow?
Demands for cures and a flat NIH budget are putting pressure on scientists to produce findings that go right to the...
Autumn 2008
A life’s work in Indonesia
Even as a medical student, Kinari Webb knew where she wanted to practice medicine. Now, she and her ecologist husband...
Spring 2008
How the West was won
The acquisition of the former Bayer HealthCare facility, now known as West Campus, resolves long-standing space needs...
Spring 2008
A neurosurgeon’s photographic legacy
Harvey Cushing pioneered many techniques in neurosurgery, among them the still-young art of photography as a tool for...
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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...
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
A tale of two doctors
John Elefteriades and Larry Cohen have worked together at Yale for 30 years, as student and mentor, as colleagues and,...
Autumn 2007
Putting the fire back into Yale's transplant program
When Prometheus stole fire from the gods, Zeus condemned him to have his liver eaten by an eagle every day. The myth,...
Autumn 2007
The gospel according to Langer
Three Yale faculty members learned bioengineering by working alongside a legendary MIT professor who believes in...
Autumn 2007
Taking the E-ROAD
A recent Yale graduate reflects on the desire of younger doctors for a fulfilling life outside of medicine.
Spring 2007
Simulated Cases, Real Skills
Increasingly, medical schools such as Yale are using standardized patients, lifelike mannequins and virtual reality to...
Spring 2007
From the potion to the pill
By characterizing and quantifying the active ingredients in traditional Chinese herbal remedies, Yale scientists hope...
Spring 2007
A fascination with violence
Dorothy Lewis has spent her career trying to understand murderers. Her ideas, once considered outrageous, now influence...
Winter 2007
Little mouse, big science
Geneticist Tian Xu has found a way to make knockout mice quickly and cheaply. By finding genes and discerning their...
Winter 2007
Water is life
An EPH alumna works to bring water to the remote Azawak region of Niger, where drought is devastating a traditional,...
Winter 2007
Infectious disease, internal medicine and Paul Beeson
During his 13 years as chair of internal medicine, Paul Beeson turned the department into one of the best in the...
Autumn 2006
The Chase years
Six years ago, Herb Chase came to Yale to improve medical education. As his tenure ended this summer, he left behind a...
Autumn 2006
The long war
Born in a war-torn mountain village in the former Yugoslavia, Yossi Schlessinger went on to fight other battles,...
Autumn 2006
Preserving fertility
Where once physicians' only concern was saving lives, new techniques under study at Yale can also preserve fertility in...
Spring 2006
Yale connections around the world
When Tamara Lazic, now a second-year student at the School of Medicine, sought to combine a passion for languages with...
Spring 2006
The virus behind the cancer
Over the last half-century research has produced strong evidence of viral links to some cancers. Now vaccines may...
Spring 2006
The final chapter
Shortly after lunch on a midsummer’s day, Charles Slater felt ill. Complaining of indigestion, the 55-year-old...
Spring 2006
When animals sound a warning
Under a new center, ecologists and epidemiologists try to understand the interactions among humans, environment and...
Autumn 2005
“Letter from Kathmandu”
The rain starts innocently with scattered sprinkles—warning enough for street vendors to cover their wares and for...
Autumn 2005
The unseen wounds of war
As long as humans have waged war, the horrors of the battlefield have caused psychological damage. As troops return...
Autumn 2005
“Breaking the back of polio”
Working in a Yale laboratory in the 1940s, Dorothy Horstmann solved a puzzle that would lead to the first polio vaccine.
Autumn 2005
A year at the helm
Since he arrived at Yale in 2004, Dean Robert Alpern has led faculty to a new vision of the medical school, with a...
Summer 2005
“The silent scourge of development”
In the Senegalese village of Mbagam, health worker Fatou Kine Manga fines those who enter the waters of the Senegal...
Summer 2005
Promoting health, from the ground up
Part of a national effort to create community health partnerships, a Yale center is working with New Haven churches to...
Spring 2005
Lessons from the depths
Accounts of death row inmates released from prison based on DNA evidence have become as routine as news stories about...
Spring 2005
Leaving no child behind
In a memoir of his formative years, child psychiatrist James Comer describes what he learned from his family and...
Spring 2005
In the anatomy lab, a new way of thinking
Scarce instructors, new tools and a boom in knowledge lead to an ongoing experiment in anatomy teaching. Structure...
Fall/Winter 2004
A film to finish
To public health alumna and documentary filmmaker Amelia Shaw, there is really only one way to describe Haiti: the land...
Fall/Winter 2004
Getting the right fold
For almost two decades Arthur Horwich has been unraveling a basic biological mystery: how proteins achieve their native...
Fall/Winter 2004
Recreating the residency
Under new rules, residents may not work more than 80 hours a week. This change has forced physicians to rethink the...
Summer 2004
Mapping the social mind
Humans share such solid bonds with family, friends and community that we can scarcely imagine what it might be like to...
Summer 2004
Life on wheels
Vicki Elman sits in her wheelchair, stranded on the sidewalk in front of her California house. Her wheelchair motor has...
Spring 2004
"That college feeling"
Midtown, Hyde Park, Brookline. Match Day is upon us, and I am looking for a neighborhood in the cities whose hospitals...
Spring 2004
Journey of the heart
A collaborative bridge between Yale and Iran spanning the genetics of cardiovascular disease is a two-way street for...
Spring 2004
Two alternatives, each a little wrong
With that definition of dilemma in mind, Yale's cadre of bioethicists wade into our mailbag and weigh in on readers'...
Winter 2004
An insider’s view
It’s nearly 1 a.m. on Sunday morning of the July 4 weekend, and the constellation of examination cubicles and work...
Winter 2004
Fighting the good food fight
With the pealing bells of St. Mary’s Church as counterpoint, a celebratory air prevailed in the seminar room of...
Winter 2004
Closing the gender gap
When Barbara K. Kinder, M.D. ’71, HS ’77, trained at Yale three decades ago, surgical residents were just that:...
Autumn 2003
Building a better drug
The rational approach to drug discovery is changing pharmacology, but serendipity and imagination still play a starring...
Autumn 2003
When a global outbreak becomes local
For the shoe-leather work of public health, Connecticut officials seek help from Yale's disease detectives.
Autumn 2003
A matter of taste
Debunking myths and shattering stereotypes has long been part of Linda Bartoshuk's career path.
Summer 2003
A new space for science
When A. John Anlyan, B.S. ’42, M.D. ’45, arrived at the School of Medicine for first-year classes in the early 1940s,...
Summer 2003
High Resolution
The opening of a new Magnetic Resonance Research Center gives Yale expanded capabilities for advancing imaging science...
Summer 2003
Showdown
When Ross M. Tonkens, M.D. ’74, arrived in Las Vegas in 1990, the gold rush was on. Casinos were expanding, the work...
Summer 2003
A safer OR
Avoiding medical errors is one piece of the malpractice puzzle. David Gaba has spent his entire career preventing them.
Spring 2003
When East meets West
To appreciate the sea change under way at Kazan State Medical University, one needs a swift history lesson, a tour of...
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...
Winter 2003
Long road to Cedar Street
You might say Karen Sarena Morris’ cover was blown at the White Jacket Ceremony. As young as she looks, the first-year...
Winter 2003
The big move
Relocating 91 laboratories, a magnetic resonance center and the medical school’s teaching facilities across Congress...
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...
Autumn 2002
“A steam engine in pants”
Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., was the catalyst behind the Yale School of Medicine’s rise to elite status in the years...
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...
Autumn 2002
The Yale System lives! Long live the Yale System.
In February, a group of medical students sat down with a copy of the alumni directory and addressed letters to some...
Summer 2002
Eyes wide open
The suffering of the boy who had fallen into boiling water was like the misery of the city’s streets: possible for some...
Summer 2002
Commencement 2002
A large class, an inspired speaker and a tall order - to do some good in the world.
Spring 2002
Reinventing surgery
Robert Udelsman left one of the busiest medical centers on the planet to lead Yale’s Department of Surgery out of its...
Spring 2002
Putting evolution to use
From the landscape of an ancient “RNA world” springs an idea that could lead to the creation of ultrasensitive...
Spring 2002
The toll road
In science, an idea can lie dormant for a century and then enjoy a fantastic rebirth. That’s what happened when Charlie...
Winter 2002
Lessons from anthrax
A Yale Medicine roundtable.At the 2001 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last...
Winter 2002
Targeting cancer by subtype
Drawing from an archive of 3 million tissue samples, Yale investigators are applying the latest in microarray...
Winter 2002
Moving beyond fear
In Kenya’s lively and cosmopolitan capital, where HIV has made alarming inroads, there’s a desperate need for good...
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...
Autumn 2001
A world of difference
Ramona Farid, M.D., knew she wasn’t in New Haven anymore the night she found herself on a hospital patio pouring a...
Autumn 2001
An epidemic in the making
Type 2 diabetes poses alarming health risks as obesity soars and exercise is crowded from modern life. Yale...
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
A dramatic turn
The playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith stands in the well of Fitkin Amphitheater musing about how patients and...
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
"Adrenaline and the ordinary in varying proportions"
A student’s exposure to medicine in this former Soviet republic reveals a different rhythm in the OR and a vastly...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Neighbors
Photographs prepared for Yale’s Tercentennial celebration explore the work of health professionals and students and...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
New Haven’s biotech boom
The medical school’s efforts to bring its intellectual property to market have given the New Haven economy a boost.
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
After the genome, “a new future for medicine”
The year 2000 brought the working-draft version of the human genome and new hopes for medicine and the understanding of...
Summer 2000
Bringing science into focus
In an office two levels below the reference room in the Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Matthew Weed is reading a copy...
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)....
Summer 2000
The ins and outs of international adoption
A new Yale clinic guides parents and pediatricians through the complicated terrain of adopting abroad.
Spring 2000
To the vector go the spoils
Last July, something went very wrong in New York City’s crow population. Signs of trouble appeared first in the Bronx,...
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...
Spring 2000
Eight decades of the Yale System
Ever since its implementation in the 1920s, the Yale System of medical education has been the point of common reference...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
The view from inside the Golgi complex
The inside of a cell is a highly organized place, where structure and order allow its components to carry out their...
Fall 1999 | Winter 2000
Medicine, politics and the 2000 campaign
A veteran analyst of American health care takes the pulse of presidential politics.
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
The mouse that roared
Once the stuff of myth and science fiction, the transgenic mouse, first created at Yale, has conquered the world of...
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.
Summer 1999
A 'Crisis of the Spirit' in Kosovo
As ethnic Albanians fled Kosovo by the hundreds of thousands this spring, eight Yale volunteers traveled to neighboring...
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
The Many Worlds of Noxipo Maraire
When Nozipo Maraire returns to Zimbabwe next year, she will be one of seven neurosurgeons in a nation of 11 million...
Spring 1999
An education in taste
Start with one legendary French chef. Combine with Yale scientist and expert in the physiology of taste. Mix with fine...
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...
Spring 1999
‘We have a remarkable community here’
Susan Hockfield, an accomplished neurobiologist and new dean of the Graduate School, talks about the future of...
Winter 1999
Mapping the landscape of Asthma
With a series of landmark advances, Yale researchers are unlocking the biological secrets that could explain why so...
Winter 1999
A recipe for better medicine
Patients in different settings may receive very different treatments for the same condition. A push is on to...
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...
Fall 1998
A vision for vision
Two years into his tenure as chair, Bruce Shields is building a new program around disorders of the retina and tackling...
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
Found in translation
A cell is a cell is a cell, researchers say, as Drosophila, yeast and other model organisms yield clues to human...
Fall 1998
Interview: Dennis Spencer
The leader of Yale’s newly created Department of Neurosurgery is as comfortable astride a Harley-Davidson as in the...
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 new era in AIDS treatment
In the 17 years he's been treating people with AIDS, never has Gerald H. Friedland, M.D., been more optimistic. New...
Summer 1998
Dispatch from the front lines
Caring for people with AIDS helped author Peter Selwyn come to terms with a death in his own family.
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...
Summer 1998
Factoring in gender
How do gender differences affect the progress and treatment of disease? It's often hard to say, since for decades women...
Winter/Spring 1998
Medicine's new eyes
A century ago, the modern science of medical imaging was born when Roentgen discovered the X-ray. Now, new methods are...
Winter/Spring 1998
Navigating the spinal cord
Originating in the brain, stretching down the back and extending its reach through the peripheral nerves to every part...
Winter/Spring 1998
Music and medicine
What was the first human music? A whistled imitation of a bird call? A rhythmic pounding that mimicked a heartbeat or...
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