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Medicine & Healthcare Archive
The Belly of the Beast
by Jennifer Kaylin
March/April 2004
Don't blame Americans for being fat. Blame the American Dream. We've built our land of milk and honey, and now, says a controversial Yale psychologist, it's doing us in.
Untangling the Brain
by Bruce Fellman
January/February 2004
Evolution shaped the human brain for speech. Literacy is a neurological afterthought, and when the wiring goes wrong, the result is dyslexia. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz are pioneering ways to hook up the neurons for reading.
A Neighborhood for
Cures
by Marc Wortman
March 2003
The Medical School's Congress Avenue Building, the largest structure built
by Yale in 70 years, is designed to bring research and teaching into the
21st century.
Inside Autism
by Bruce Fellman
November 2002
People with autism live in their own isolated worlds. Child Study Center
clinicians and research scientists alike are learning how to make contact
-- and how to make a difference.
Old Yale: An Unsung Hero
of Medical Research
by Judith Ann Schiff
February 2002
Early in the 20th century, a shy and self-effacing Yale professor of anatomy
named Ross Granville Harrison discovered a way to grow cells outside the
body.
A Matter of Life & Death
by Bruce Fellman
October 2000
The award-winning writing of retired surgeon Sherwin Nuland mixes history,
physiology, and mystery into explorations of how we live and die. In addition
to accounts of house calls, close calls, and systems failures, Dr. Nuland
offers something else: a prescription for healing the medical profession.
The Magical Medical Mouse
by Marc Wortman
March 2000
A genetically altered rodent is transforming the world of biomedicine by
providing a living model for the study of diseases ranging from asthma to
drug addiction.
No Doctor? No Problem!
by Magaly Olivero
November 1999
A new kind of caregiver -- the nurse practitioner and the physician assistant
-- is being trained at the Schools of Nursing and Medicine.
Bringing Home Baby
by Mark Alden Branch
May 1999
Increasing numbers of Americans are finding international adoption to be
an attractive way to build a family. But the children brought home from Russia,
China, and some other parts of the world may have special medical needs unfamiliar
to American doctors. A new clinic led by a Yale pediatrician is helping ensure
that those needs are met.
The New Nurses
by Mark Alden Branch
November 1998
Not so long ago, nurses were viewed as a kind of auxiliary to the medical
profession. Today,they are primary care providers, clinical specialists,
and, increasingly, investigators. As it celebrates its 75th anniversary,
Yale's School of Nursing is helping to redefine the profession.
Biomedical Goes Major
by Bruce Fellman
April 1998
A new undergraduate program signals a long-term commitment to an emerging
field of study.
The Health of the Future
by Bruce Fellman
February 1998
The health-care revolution has jolted the School of Medicine no less than
other institutions across the country. How it adjusts will help determine
the way medical care is delivered in the years to come.
Failures to Communicate
by Bruce Fellman
April 1997
The immune system is the body's primary defense against viruses, bacteria,
and other would-be invaders. In learning the secrets of immunity Yale researchers
are discovering the truth of a military axiom: victory depends on good communications.
The Push for Women's
Health
by Jennifer Kaylin
February 1997
A program at the School of Medicine is demonstrating that research on women's
health, which was traditionally considered synonymous with men's health,
is a very different undertaking.
Reassembling Divided
Minds
by Bruce Fellman
December 1996
Physicians and researchers alike have long been baffled by the causes of
schizophrenia, but studies now underway at the Medical School suggest that
a strategy of combined treatments can ease the impact of the disease.
Public Health & the Future
of Medicine
by Bruce Fellman
December 1996
The return of ancient scourges like plague and the emergence of such new
ones as AIDS have thrust Yale's Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
into the medical spotlight. Under a new dean, the department is helping to
rethink the way humanity battles disease.
Resolving Psychotherapy's
Identity Crisis
by Bruce Fellman
May 1996
A revolution in the understanding of brain biology has produced potent new
drugs to combat mental illness. But there is still a need for psychiatrists
who can do more than write prescriptions. Combining medication and the "talking
cure," therapists are now making progress against ailments once thought
untreatable.
The Pathways of Pain
by Bruce Fellman
March 1995
Warfare, natural disasters, and violent personal experience can create trauma
that can last for years, if not a lifetime. Researchers across Yale's academic
spectrum are pooling their knowledge in search of ways to ease the suffering.
Dimensions of Dying
by Bruce Fellman
October 1994
Yale doctors are helping their patients talk about death-and are hearing
a lot they didn't learn in medical school.
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