Mapping the landscape of asthma  (cover story)
With a series of landmark advances, Yale researchers are unlocking the biological secrets that could explain why so many Americans are having trouble breathing. Recent findings lend support to a controversial immune system theory.
By Marc Wortman

A recipe for better medicine
Patients in different settings may receive very different treatments for the same condition. A push is on to standardize care and to use those standards to measure the best health and cost outcomes for medical services.
By Karen Baar

A new prescription for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico’s popular governor and controversial statehood advocate, Pedro J. Rosselló, M.D. í70, has advanced pediatric surgery and the health care system serving his island of 3.2 million people. But statehood, a goal he has pursued since his days at Yale, has so far eluded him.
By John Curtis

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A new crop of first-years  |  100 years of heroin  |  Grass-roots public health  |  Frank talk about fibs  |  Understanding hepatitis  |  A clean room for stem cell transplantation   |  Spirituality and health  |  A patient goes home with a mechanical heart  |  Risks from radon   |  Credit balances claim settled  |  Imaging neurovascular disease  |  Predicting schizophrenia  |  'Jumping DNA'  |  A new way to treat schizophrenia?  |  Heart attacks and gender  |  A little testosterone with your estrogen  |  Many heart-failure patients would rather not be revived

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