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2001 Back Issues
December 24/December 31
In Focus:
Diagnosis by Database Shows Promise
Update:
Harvard Mourns Professor Wiley
Upcoming:
The Harvard-MIT 2002 Conference on Infectious Disease
Spotlight:
Diversity Awards Presented to Faculty and Staff
Finding the Road Out of Health Care Inequality
Student Scene:
Classes Fete New Student Offices
December 17
In Focus:
Sickle Cell Disease Cured in Mouse Model
Upcoming:
Getting Ready for Prime Time--Crisis Communication in the 21st Century
Spotlight:
Milestone Celebrations: Nobel Anniversary, New Student Offices
Student Scene:
Physicians, Too, Face Barriers to Care
December 10
In Focus:
The Fruit Fly Fight Club
Upcoming:
Doctor as Writer: Medicine and the Literary
Spotlight:
Panelists Frame Science and Ethics of Stem Cell Debate
Student Scene:
A Better Way to Care for Teen Moms
December 3
In Focus:
Commoner in Brain Coronates Cortex
Upcoming:
General Interest Brown Bag Seminar:
The Harvard Geospatial Library
Spotlight:
HMS Marks World AIDS Day
Student Scene:
An International Rotation Treats the Limits of Medical Care
November 19/November 26
In Focus:
Cell Protein Potently Blocks Enzyme Linked to Cancer
Spotlight:
Garland Lecture Probes Threats of Bioterror
When Duty Calls
Student Scene:
The Changing Face of Medicine
November 12
In Focus:
Dopamine May Play Dual Role in Parkinson's Disease
Upcoming:
Strategies for Success Seminar Series:
Women at the Table: Innovative Leadership Strategies
Spotlight:
Health Forces Muster Against Bioterrorism
November 5
In Focus:
How Media Violence Touches Children
Upcoming:
The 26th Annual Joseph Garland Lecture:
AIDS: Domestic and Global Considerations for the 21st Century
Spotlight:
Anthrax and Biothreat Information
Student Scene:
The New Counterterrorism: Strengthening Health Care and Public Health
October 29
In Focus:
Human Anthrax Receptor Discovered
Upcoming:
Diversity and Devlopment Celebration Reception:
Preparing Future Leaders in Health Policy
Spotlight:
HMI World Debuts
Student Scene:
Healing and History on the Navajo Reservation
October 22
In Focus:
Structure Derived for Coat of Versatile Protein-trafficking Vesicle
Upcoming:
Boston Angiogenesis Meeting 2001
Spotlight:
Website for Breast Cancer Information Is Launched
Student Scene:
Getting Extra Mileage Out of Med School
October 15
In Focus:
Anthrax Immunity Gene Found in Mice
Upcoming:
The Second Symposium on Aging Retina and Early Degeneration
Spotlight:
Dean's Open Forum on September 11
Student Scene:
Getting Past Normal After September 11
October 8
In Focus:
Environmentally Induced Cancers Target Genetic Achilles Heel
Upcoming:
Reducing the Unequal Burdens of Cancer: A Symposium About Programs and Strategies to Improve Cancer Care Among Minorities
Spotlight:
InteliHealth, HMS Launch Revamped Website
Student Scene:
Setting Sail
October 1
In Focus:
The Case of the Misnamed Kinase
Upcoming:
Women's Health Forum: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Friends: Health Issues for Women of All Ages
Spotlight:
Bridges to the Community
Student Scene:
Bread and Circus
September 24
In Focus:
Cell Adhesion Receptor Caught on Bended Knee
Upcoming:
Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career
Spotlight:
In Relief of September 11
Student Scene:
The U.S. Attacked
September 17
In Focus:
Depression Linked to Hot Spot in Brain
Upcoming:
Ebert Community Service Day
Spotlight:
A Note from the Dean on the Response to September 11
The Medical Curriculum Goes Digital
Student Scene:
German Students Help Blaze New Pathway in Munich
September 10
In Focus:
Cell Death in Eggs Traced to Smoking
Upcoming:
The Sixth Annual Mission Hill Walk for Health
Spotlight:
White Coat Day 2001
Student Scene:
Medical Frontiers: Where Art and Science Meet Global Economics
September 3
In Focus:
Common Aspirin Reveals Mechanism of Insulin Resistance
Upcoming:
How Long Do I Have to Live? Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors
Spotlight:
Summers Salutes Health Care East and West
Student Scene:
First-year Students Size Up Medicine, Receive White Coats
August 27
In Focus:
Inflammatory Villain Turns Do-Gooder
Upcoming:
Biennial Cornea Conference at Schepens Research Institute
Spotlight:
FUNC Ends Summertime Funk for First-years
Student Scene:
How Image Courts Meaning in Science
August 13/August 20
In Focus:
Amniotic Cells May Be Source of New
Tissue
Upcoming:
Radiation Damage to DNA: Repair and Cellular Responses
Spotlight:
Korean Experts Gauge Impact of Genomics on Medical Practice
Student Scene:
Students Take Four Directions Toward Medical School
July 30/August 6
In Focus:
Does Uncoupling Protein Make Good Beta Cells Go Bad?
Spotlight:
Native American Students Participate in Summer Programs
Student Scene:
A Farewell to Residency
July 16/July 23
In Focus:
Simple Therapy Cures Mice of Type I Diabetes
Spotlight:
Harvard Injury Control Research Center Upgrades Web Access
Student Scene:
Previewing and Reviewing Third-Year Rotations
July 2/July 9
In Focus:
Class Navigates a Sea Change in Medicine
Spotlight:
Prevention Is a Lesson the U.S. Could Learn from China
Student Scene:
On the Difficulties of Choosing the Right Lab
June 25
In Focus:
Talks Explore What Makes Cells Tick
Spotlight:
New Society Masters Named
Student Scene:
First, Do No Harm
June 18
In Focus:
Breathing New Life into Asthma Therapy
Upcoming:
International Health Conference:
Health Care, East and West, Moving into the 21st Century
Spotlight:
Kerry at HMS Challenges Bush on Climate Change
Student Scene:
Learning Patient and Doctor Approaches to the Cancer Diagnosis
June 11
In Focus:
Introducing Baby to the Right Bacteria
Upcoming:
International Health Conference:
Health Care, East and West, Moving into the 21st Century
Spotlight:
Class Day 2001: Carson Tells Grads to Think Big
Student Scene:
Standing and Understanding One's Own Scientific Ground
June 4
In Focus:
Programmed Death by Mitochondria
Upcoming:
Second Symposium on Sjögren's Syndrome
Spotlight:
Kouchner Promotes Physician Activism
First-years Compete on the Quad
Student Olympics
Student Scene:
The Sacred Trust Beyond Patient and Doctor
May 28
In Focus:
Studies Find Caffeine May Counter Parkinson's
Upcoming:
A Colloquium on the Ethics and Logistics of International Research
Trials in Developing Countries
Alumni Week
Spotlight:
Nobelist Molina Urges Action on Global Warming
Student Olympics
Student Scene:
Panel Questions Ethics of Student Debt
May 21
In Focus:
New Therapy Strengthens Fight Against Osteoporosis
Upcoming:
Boston AIDS Walk & Run
Spotlight:
Alpert Prize Lauds Drug's Discovery, FDA Approves
Student Scene:
Meeting Aims to Stir Up Solutions for Postdocs
May 14
In Focus:
Immune Protein Motif Linked to AIDS Resistance
Upcoming:
Geriatric Grand Rounds:
A Team Approach to Elder Care: A Case
Study in Cultural Competence
Spotlight:
Ebert Speaker Takes Aim at Racial Disparities
Student Scene:
NAS and AAAS Address Nationwide Postdoc Issues
May 7
In Focus:
From Mutation to Medication? Faulty Toxin Sabotages Anthrax Infection
Upcoming:
The A. Clifford Barger Lecture:
The Antarctic Ozone Hole
Spotlight:
Simulator Comes to Life in TMEC
Student Scene:
Medical Tools Change the Nature of Death
April 30
In Focus:
First Domino Falls in Touch Research
Upcoming:
General Interest Symposium:
Are You the Type to Save a Life? The
HMS Type for Life Bone Marrow Transplant Education Day and Bone
Marrow Tissue Typing Drive
Free Oral Cancer Screenings to Be Given in Longwood, Fenway
Neighborhoods
Spotlight:
Minority Students Accepted to Class of '05 Revisit Campus
Student Scene:
Archives Will Illuminate Harvard Women Physicians
April 23
In Focus:
Circadian Rhythms May Distinguish Alzheimer's Disease
Upcoming:
Psychiatry Forum:
Genomics and Human Behavior— How the Human
Genome Project Will Impact Psychiatry and Mental Health
Spotlight:
HST Students Devote Day to Community Service
Student Scene:
Panel Sifts for Gold in Human Genome
April 16
In Focus:
Pain Promoter Plays Unexpected Role in Central Nervous System
Upcoming:
George W. Gay Lecture in Medical Ethics:
Some Ethical Issues in
End-of-Life Care
Robert H. Ebert Lecture:
And Still I Rise
Spotlight:
Student Research Gets Limelight
Student Scene:
On Dissection and Healing
April 9
In Focus:
Accomplice Fingered In Cholera Toxicity
Upcoming:
Cabot Primary Care Series
Beyond Prohibition: A Case for Drug
Student Scene:
Love in the Time of Medical School
April 2
In Focus:
Cancer Cells' Immortality May Depend on Longevity Protein
Upcoming:
Soma Weiss Research Day
The Human Genome and Beyond
Spotlight:
Conference Calls for More Minority Women in Clinical Trials
Fabric: A Celebration of Black Culture
Student Scene:
What Is Healing?
March 26
In Focus:
Human Genome Tally: Is Recount in Order?
Upcoming:
J. Worth Estes, M.D. History of Medicine Lecture:
Plastic Surgery in Boston—Then and Now
General Interest
Conference: Organ Donation and its Alternatives
Spotlight:
Diabetes Postage Stamp Dedicated at Joslin
Student Scene:
Match Day: The Envelope Please...
March 19
In Focus:
Many Patients Unaware How Their Doctors Get Paid
Upcoming:
Premier of NOVA's Survivor MD
Spotlight:
Summers to Succeed Rudenstine as President of Harvard
Student Scene:
Setting the Clinician's Temperature: Cool Head, Warm Hand
March 12
In Focus:
Majority of Alzheimer's Plaques Cleared from Brains of Living Mice
Upcoming:
Zuckerman Memorial Lecture on Medical Ethics:
The Role of Spirituality in Healthcare
Spotlight:
HMS Academy Will Support Teaching
Student Scene:
Grad Student Caucus Probes Facets of Health Policy
March 5
In Focus:
Early Decision: How Embryonic Stem Cells Become Fine-tuned Brains
Upcoming:
Public Health Symposium:
Genomics: A Population Perspective
Spotlight:
Families Get Acquainted with HMS
Student Scene:
'Interdisciplinary' Means Reading Between the Lines, Not Falling
Through the Cracks
February 26
In Focus:
Slow Metabolism of Alcohol Linked to Lower Heart Risk
Upcoming:
Women's Health Conference:
Recruiting Minority Women into Clinical Research Trials: The
Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Community, and Academia
Spotlight:
What Now? Genome Project Head Addresses Gene Map Consequences
Student Scene:
The HMS Second-Year Show: 'Corporate Looteum: The MEC Shall Inherit the Earth'
February 19
In Focus:
Surprise Route Found for Breast Cancer Spread
Upcoming:
Ethics Forum:
Ethics and Phase I Clinical Trials
Spotlight:
Barger Awards Recognize Mentors, Silen Award Honors Life of Mentoring
Student Scene:
Clinical Scholars Take Master's in Patient-oriented Research
February 12
In Focus:
Cloak Partly Lifted on Tiny Chlamydia
Upcoming:
The Cabot Primary Care Lecture Series presents the David Eliot
Memorial Lecture:
A Dialogue with Patients and Families about Living with
Life-Threatening Illness
Spotlight:
Kogan Joins Longwood Symphony in Benefit for Dimock Health Center
Student Scene:
Don't Stop Now: There's Still a Lot to Be Learned About the Human Genome
February 5
In Focus:
Protein May Play Double Role in Issuing Genetic Gag Order
Upcoming:
The Dunham Lectures:
Sizing and Timing in Animal Development
Spotlight:
City, Community, and University Dignitaries Pitch in at
Groundbreaking for New Research Building
Student Scene:
Having 'Box Checked' Signals Final Lap of Graduate Ed
January 29
In Focus:
Mosaic Blood Vessels Could Provide Portal for Metastasis
Upcoming:
Psychiatry Grand Rounds:
Culture and Mental Health Issues Among African Americans
Spotlight:
See the Technology and Engineering Center Online
Student Scene:
Outreach Office Adds Bridge Between Students and Boston Neighborhoods
January 22
In Focus:
Endostatin Beads Pack Therapeutic Punch
Upcoming:
Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health
Policy Leadership Forum:
Leadership in the New Millennium
Student Scene:
Pain: Children Are Not Immune
January 15
In Focus:
Molecular Bureaucrat Tied to Replication Approval Process
Upcoming:
Peabody Lecture Series:
The Neglected Discipline: Stories About Teachers and Teaching
Spotlight:
Reede to Advise New Administration on Minority Health
Student Scene:
Students Confront Death in Learning End-of-Life Care
January 8
In Focus:
Martin Convenes Leaders of Top Schools to Consider Conflict of
Interest Policies
Upcoming:
Infectious Diseases Seminar Series:
Arresting Epidemics: Global Efforts to Fight Diseases of the
Poor—The Evolution of Public Policy from Polio Immunization to
Global Eradication
Student Scene:
Trading Places: Students Give Teachers a Lesson on Clerkships
December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001
In Focus:
Worm Used to Hook New Serotonin Receptor
Upcoming:
Psychiatry Grand Rounds:
Anxious Monkeys: Biological Relevance to Psychopathology
Spotlight:
Office for Research Nets Website
Student Scene:
Connect!: An 'Anti-gunner' Battle Cry