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vision for vision Two years into
his tenure as chair, Bruce Shields is building a new program
around disorders of the retina and tackling the financial challenges
presented by managed care. Against this backdrop: spectacular
work in basic visual science, a new laser center and other advances
in treatment. Found
in translation A cell is a
cell is a cell, researchers say, as Drosophila, yeast and other
model organisms yield clues to human illness—and increasingly
suggest paths to improved treatments. Translational research
at Yale has been enriched by unusually good crosstalk between
basic scientists and clinicians. Interview:
Dennis Spencer The leader of Yale’s newly created Department of Neurosurgery is as comfortable astride a Harley-Davidson as in the operating room charting new territory in the treatment of epilepsy. |
A revived program in microbiology | Brain surgery, without opening the skull | Physician associates gain their master’s | Lyme disease vaccines prove effective | “Ticked off” about Lyme disease treatment | Women’s health research | High school genomics | Estrogen and breast cancer | Dissecting the body with the click of a mouse | Seeing the whole person instead of the disease | Patient data privacy and progress | Building town-gown partnership | A new tool of combat cocaine addiction | A new strategy for stroke and Alzheimer’s? | Yale faculty visit Iran | The ethics of clinical trials | Stay-at-home fathers | Drug resistance and HIV |
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