Medicine@Yale Magazine

Medicine@Yale.

October/November 2005   Volume 1 Issue 3

Inside this issue

Cover stories

A major boost for recruiting top doctors

Of moths and mice: jumping genes make big leap to mammals

Program aims to close the gender gap in medical research

Partnerships

Yale and Donaghue partnership treats research advances as a practical matter

Students come north and aid flows south as Yale lends a hand in wake of Katrina

Benefit bike ride raises $250,000 for Yale survivors’ clinic

Grants & contracts

People

Lifelines: Gail D’Onofrio on saving and changing lives

Diabetes expert is named dean of nursing

Borgstrom named president/CEO of Yale-New Haven

Neuroscientist Horvath will chair Comparative Medicine

Out & about

Awards & honors

Science

Advances: When it comes to taste, the nose knows | Cellular power plants help explain diabetes

Health

Liver transplantation program formed with an international team of experts

Database promises early alerts of outbreaks

Defusing vascular “time bombs” calls for group effort

New lens implant for cataracts is a bionic-style bifocal

Advances: A stubborn inequity in heart treatments | An upside to aneurysms?



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