John Dillon
John Dillon, a New Haven-based journalist, has been writing on health and medical issues for 15 years. He is a longtime contributor to Yale Medicine magazine.
Articles
Winter 2013
Evidence in our language
Evidence of individual identity almost as incriminating as a fingerprint can be gleaned from how we use language.“A lot...
Spring 2012
Summer heat deadlier
Research models that estimate how many people might die in urban heat waves will help government agencies better...
Spring 2012
Don’t think of cancer as a “Superman”
James D. Watson, Ph.D., subscribes to a personal health regimen that includes doses of the diabetes drug metformin,...
Spring 2012
“Good science has won out”
The controversy over childhood inoculation came to Yale when audience members confronted an expert who declared that...
Spring 2012
Student-run clinic grades its own performance
A report card on a student-run free clinic in Fair Haven could be summarized thus: “Provides care comparable to...
Autumn 2011
White Coat ceremony kicks off Bicentennial
The annual White Coat ceremony in Harkness Auditorium in August was the inaugural event of the School of Medicine’s...
Winter 2010
When pizza and a starlet compete for attention
When both food and a sexy starlet appear in a television commercial, pizza stirs up more brain activity, but increased...
Winter 2010
Accounting for sex differences in medicine
The key to healing men often lies in studying women first, according to a Yale expert who said that females respond...
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...
Spring 2010
Relying on the kindness of strangers
The central figure in Tracy Kidder’s new book escaped death by machete in his native Burundi, beat overwhelming odds to...
Autumn 2010
Yale researchers create a Lyme disease app for iPhone that assesses risk
Protection from Lyme disease can be as close as your pocket, thanks to an iPhone application developed by Yale...
Autumn 2010
City supermarket closes, leaving a “food desert” along Whalley Avenue
When Shaw’s opened one of its few urban stores on Whalley Avenue in 1998, it brought fresh, affordable food to the Yale...
Winter 2009
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...
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
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...
Winter 2009
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...
Winter 2009
Noah Webster—from listing definitions to tracking disease
Noah Webster, a 1778 graduate of Yale College, is best known for his eponymous dictionaries, but his lexicographical...
Spring 2009
Alum finds fascination in disease and the end of life
Robert Buckingham, Ph.D. ’78, saw a lot of people die when he served in the U.S. Navy during the height of the Vietnam...
Spring 2009
Connecticut lags in long-term care for elderly and disabled
Connecticut has made inroads into shifting long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities from...
Spring 2009
At Commencement, the PA Program’s history
Alfred Sadler, the first director of Yale’s Physician Associate Program, described its early days in the 1970s.When...
Winter 2008
A third party to speak for the terminally ill
Doctors and nurses in cases involving medically futile treatment often clash with a patient’s loved ones over whether...
Winter 2008
Seeking a national solution to health care for all
Medicine is witnessing the best and worst of times because of the “staggering difference” between lifesaving advances...
Spring 2008
Award for Doonesbury cartoonist
The travails of the “Doonesbury” character B.D. as he readjusts to civilian life after losing a leg in Iraq won the...
Spring 2008
Tiny RNAs discovered in “junk” DNA play an important role in controlling gene function, Yale scientists reported in the journal Nature in October.
Yale researchers have engineered a virus that can find its way through the vascular system and kill deadly brain...
Spring 2008
LSD, mescaline and brain receptors
That the brain has specific receptors for various drugs is now an established fact, but it took a long, strange trip by...
Spring 2008
Breakfast matters, even if it’s just a doughnut
Conventional wisdom took a recess when Howard Taras, M.D., told an audience at pediatric grand rounds in February about...
Spring 2008
Vaccines and the flu virus of 1918–1919
In 1918, with the world in the grippe’s grasp, researchers were desperate for a way to stem the pandemic. They turned...
Spring 2008
Technique promotes new bone
A novel technique—removing bone marrow and injecting a hormone—promotes rapid formation of new bone in rats, Yale...
Spring 2008
Yale team implants new prosthetic ankle
The ankle’s position in the hierarchy of artificial joints corresponds roughly to its location at the bottom of the...
Autumn 2008
School of Medicine goes green as it aims for lower carbon emissions by 2020
The Yale School of Medicine’s sustainability campaign is ambitious and costs a little extra, but it’s perfectly willing...
Autumn 2008
Lawsuits could bankrupt vaccine program
A program that encourages childhood vaccinations could collapse under unproven allegations that the shots cause...
Winter 2007
Lacking an enzyme linked to diabetes and obesity, mice stay slim on a high-carb diet
Even on a “supersize” diet, mice bred to lack a certain enzyme remained more svelte than mice with the enzyme,...
Winter 2007
Consistency lacking in transfer of patient data
No matter how swift the runners, a relay race is lost if they don’t pass the baton properly.
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
From the potion to the pill
By characterizing and quantifying the active ingredients in traditional Chinese herbal remedies, Yale scientists hope...
Autumn 2007
Errors and transplant patients
Patients recovering from organ transplants run a high risk of medication errors that can land them back in the...
Spring 2006
Cell phones reduce errors
Cell phones have long been banished from hospitals over fears of interference with medical devices. A study by a Yale...
Autumn 2006
Tissue engineering takes a leap forward with new scaffold design
Tissue engineering began in the late 1980s to fill a gap in the treatment of certain diseases—those for which...
Summer 2005
FDA’s top safety critic keeps a watchful eye on the public good
Whenever David J. Graham, M.D., M.P.H., HS ’81, wonders whether he made the right career move from Yale-New Haven...
Summer 2003
The thesis goes digital
With a vision of electrons prevailing over paper, Charles J. Greenberg, M.L.S., M.Ed., head of reference services at...
Summer 2003
Does industry funding equal conflict of interest? Often it does, Yale authors claim
As biomedical researchers increase their dependence on industry support for research, Yale investigators say this...
Spring 2003
Busing and better housing are found to have an impact on pedestrian safety
Analyzing New Haven accident statistics during a seven-year period, a Yale team has found that interventions by city...
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