In Print Photo by Steve Gilbert Focus: Studies Find Caffeine May Counter Parkinson's Two studies—one at the Medical School and the other at the School of Public Health—show that caffeine may protect against Parkinson's disease. Jiang-Fan Chen, Michael Schwarzschild (l to r above), and colleagues, and the team of epidemiologist Alberto Ascherio report complementary findings that build a case for caffeine as a neuroprotective agent in humans. BBS Bulletin HSTconnector MD-PhD Newsletter MedEd News Mentations On The Brain

Headlines Children's Researcher Stresses Need for More Emphasis on Screening and Intervention for Adolescent Substance Abuse in Medical Office Settings Upcoming A Colloquium on the Ethics and Logistics of International Research Trials in Developing Countries George Annas, Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health Jennifer Leaning, Harvard School of Public Health David Walton, Harvard Medical School Tuesday, June 5 6:30 p.m. Alumni Week Wednesday, June 6 to Friday, June 8 Call for Writers Are you an HMS student and a natural writer with few outlets for your creative mind and journalistic eye? Consider writing for Focus and WebWeekly. Several of our veteran columnists will be graduating this year so we're looking for MD and PhD students to fill their vacancies. The job requires producing three to six columns a year for the Forum section of Focus and Student Scene section of WebWeekly. Candidates must be skilled and motivated writers though do not have to be previously published. The biweekly Focus goes out to 18,000 faculty and staff across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, and every issue of WebWeekly receives thousands of visitors. If interested, please contact editor Robert Neal, 432-0448 or e-mail rneal@hms.harvard.edu.

Spotlight Photo by Judy Sylwester, HMS Media Services Nobelist Molina Urges Action on Global Warming Speaking at the Medical School, Nobel laureate Mario Molina described the international campaign to protect the ozone layer as a template for organizing against global warming. First-years Compete on the Quad HMS first-year students again competed for the prized pink flamingo at this year's Society Olympics. And the winners were... Student Scene Photo by Jeff Cleary Panel Questions Ethics of Student Debt Rising medical school debt is hard enough for individual students to bear, says Vatsal Doshi, who covered a recent panel on ethics and student debt, but the collective effect on society may be greater. The trend shifts medicine away from activities such as academic research, primary care, and serving the underserved, jeopardizing American medicine.

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