Medicine@Yale publication

Medicine@Yale.

March/April 2008   Volume 4 Issue 1

Inside this issue

Cover stories

Couple with a cause

Slow readers, creative thinkers

New faculty prize will recognize superb patient care

Partnerships

Student-run auction benefits seven New Haven-area charities

Awards support research on health disparities, depression

Grants & contracts

People

Lifelines: Pasko Rakic

Renowned teacher, researcher named dean of engineering

Alumnus is winner of Yale's highest honor

Expert on women's health is honored for leadership

Advocates for universal preschool share education prize

Out & about

Science

Gene-hunters search the world for treatments

Advances: Raising the Rae-1 flag | Early treatment could quiet epilepsy | Running depression out of our lives | Arthritis therapy stops diabetes in its tracks

Health

Implant lets patients put the best foot forward

Family sharing a risky mutation now shares newfound hope



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This issue follows Volume 3, Issue 6 (November/December 2007). The January/February 2008 issue was not published.

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