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2002 Back Issues
December 23/30, 2002
In Focus:
Formin Gene May Explain a Common Cause of Female Infertilit
Spotlight:
Hospital Length of Stay May Not Affect a Newborn's Health
Student Scene:
A Promise of Care
December 16, 2002
In Focus:
Immune Cells May See Strain of HIV But Be Blind to Viral Cousin
Upcoming:
Medical Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder, and Genocide
Spotlight:
Conference Fosters Dialogue on Biosecurity
Student Scene:
Re-centering the Patient in Clinical Education
December 9, 2002
In Focus:
Enzyme Implicated in Insulin Resistance
Upcoming:
Medical Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Nazi Doctors, Racial Hygiene, Murder, and Genocide
Spotlight:
HMS Lends Hand to Landmark Mouse Genome Study
Student Scene:
Scientific Sloppiness is Bad News for Translational Research
November 25/December 2, 2002
In Focus:
Protein Predicts Heart Disease Better than Cholesterol
Upcoming:
The State of the State of Children's Mental Health Care in Massachusetts
Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Genetics of Common Disease
Spotlight:
Symposium Addresses Advancement Barriers for Women and Minority Faculty
Student Scene:
PhD Training as Platform for Diverse Careers
November 18, 2002
In Focus:
New Device Documents Clot Formation in Living Mice
Upcoming:
Harvard Programs on AIDS in Africa: A University Responds
Spotlight:
Korsmeyer Receives AAMC Research Award
Mission Hill Walk Raises Over $40,000
Student Scene:
Balancing Drug Markets, Leveling World Health
November 11, 2002
In Focus:
Enzyme Linked to Pathology of Parkinson's Disease Appears Two-faced
Upcoming:
Mapping Place, Connecting Community: A Symposium Connecting International and Community Service Learning Projects Across Place and Discipline
Spotlight:
Science Seminars Extend Reach into Community
Student Scene:
Clinical Exam Scores May Predict Future Performance on Boards
November 4, 2002
In Focus:
Combo Vector Delivers Blow Against Melanoma
Upcoming:
A People Looking Forward: Health Issues for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Spotlight:
First Medical Education Day Held
Student Scene:
Lecture Series on Medical Mistakes Targets Preclinical Students
October 28, 2002
In Focus:
Shadow Proteins in the Thymus Give Clues to Autoimmunity
Upcoming:
The Responsibility of Medical Journalism: Then (1947-1967) and Now
Spotlight:
Oscar Tugo Circle Dedicated
Student Scene:
A Primary Dilemma for Underrepresented Minorities
October 21, 2002
In Focus:
Protector Protein Part of Nerve Cell Defense
Upcoming:
Cell Signaling in Radiobiology and Carcinogenesis
Spotlight:
Panel Outlines Steps for Bioterror Preparedness
Student Scene:
Making Cultural Competency a Part of Medical Training
October 14, 2002
In Focus:
Lost Memories--A Side Effect of Education?
Upcoming:
Fifteen Years of HIV Treatment: Progress and Challenges
Spotlight:
Clean Power Considered for New Research Building
HMS Dean Marks Five Years of Progress in State of the School
Student Scene:
Healing Touch of a Troubled Mind
October 7, 2002
In Focus:
How Does Nucleus Tell Signals Apart? It's in the Timing
Upcoming:
Hollis L. Albright, M.D. '31 Annual Symposium:
The Future of Neurosciences at HMS
Spotlight:
Anatomy of Anatomy
HMS Dean Marks Five Years of Progress in State of the School
Student Scene:
Respecting Navajo Medicine May Collide with Preserving It
September 30, 2002
In Focus:
Protein Components Identified in RNA Splicer
Upcoming:
The Ig Medical Lectures
Spotlight:
HMS Dean Marks Five Years of Progress in State of the School
Student Scene:
TV Coverage of 9/11 Linked to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
September 23, 2002
In Focus:
What's Wrong with My Mouse?
Upcoming:
Education or Endurance? Ethics and the Debate over Resident Work Hours
Spotlight:
Adding Workshops, Ebert Day Draws Audience to Community Service
Student Scene:
'Fat Bias': A Barrier to the Treatment of Obesity
September 16, 2002
In Focus:
Protein Seen to Animate Cell Skeleton
Upcoming:
How the Brain Learns: Implications for Medical Education from the Neurosciences and Cognitive Theory
Spotlight:
Reception Held for Incoming Minority Students
Student Scene:
Words: The Most Potent Drug
September 9, 2002
In Focus:
Brake on Axon Regrowth Discovered
Upcoming:
Ebert Community Service Day
Spotlight:
DMS Welcomes New PhD Students
Student Scene:
Genetically Modified Foods: Hypocrisy and Disclosure
September 2, 2002
In Focus:
Glowing Mouse Shows How Immune Alarm Rallies Troops Against Invasion
Upcoming:
Anticipating the Anniversary of September 11
Spotlight:
FUNC Adds Outreach to First-years' Repertoire
Student Scene:
White Coat Day 2002
August 26
In Focus:
Resistance Mutation Pinpointed in Gleevec Patients
Upcoming:
Lessons from Clinical Application of Antiangiogenic Therapy
Spotlight:
FUNC Adds Outreach to First-years' Repertoire
Student Scene:
HMS Students, Fellows Aid Nepalis Toward Medical Ed Summit
August 12/August 19
In Focus:
Molecular Target Found for Boosting T Cell Tolerance
Upcoming:
Student Intern Presentations for 2002 of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative
Spotlight:
Voice Disorders Website Speaks Volumes
Student Scene:
Tolerating the Uncertainty Principle
July 29/August 5
In Focus:
Melanomas Commandeer Cell Survival Pathway
Upcoming:
Student Intern Presentations for 2002 of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative
Spotlight:
$15 Million Received to Study Bacteria for Cleaning Environment, Producing Energy
Student Scene:
The Plague: Historical Killer, Modern Menace
July 15/July 22
In Focus:
Anticancer Compounds Chase Kinase Culprit
Spotlight:
Sleep Seen as Architect of Learning
Forum:
It's Not Easy Being Green in the Lab
Student Scene:
Dental Students Display Research Results
July 1/July 8
In Focus:
RNA Technology Thwarts HIV
Spotlight:
Hopi High Schoolers Embrace Lab Learning
Student Scene:
Shoring Up the Ethical Foundation of Care
June 24
In Focus:
Doctors Probe Normal and Diseased Brain
Upcoming:
Biological Challenges to Humanity: Emerging and Re-emerging
Spotlight:
In Keynote, Federman Draws Blueprint for Students to Make Meaningful Change in Health Care
Student Scene:
Grad-to-Be Considers the Weight of Commencement
June 17
In Focus:
Molecular Jumping Jack Shows Off Moves
Upcoming:
Biological Challenges to Humanity: Emerging and Re-emerging
Spotlight:
In Keynote, Federman Draws Blueprint for Students to Make Meaningful Change in Health Care
Student Scene:
Retreat Promotes Culture of Collaboration to Counter Neurodegeneration
June 10
In Focus:
The Next Big Thing in Mining the Genome
Upcoming:
General Interest Lecture:
The United States in a Changing World
Spotlight:
In Keynote, Federman Draws Blueprint for Students to Make Meaningful Change in Health Care
Student Scene:
Disease Detectives Raise Profile After 9/11
June 3
In Focus:
Science Illuminates Art
Upcoming:
Morris J. Karnovsky Retirement Symposium:
Growth Regulation in Vascular Disease and Cancer
Spotlight:
'Topping Off' Ceremony Looks Toward Expanded Research
Student Scene:
Where Have All the Surgeons Gone?
May 27
In Focus:
Book Documents Mental Health Care Successes in Poor Nations
Upcoming:
The Benefits of Mentoring for Mentors
Spotlight:
Portraits of HMS Women Leaders Unveiled
Student Scene:
Treating Patients One at a Time
May 20
In Focus:
Old-line Antibiotics Seen to Save Neurons
Upcoming:
HMS Alumni Week
Spotlight:
First-year Fun and Games
Student Scene:
Please Bring Your Own Money
May 13
In Focus:
Gene Switch Bumps Up Bug's Drug Resistance
Upcoming:
First Annual Scientific Symposium on Research in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
Spotlight:
Economist Urges Focus on Nonmedical Determinants of Health
Student Scene:
Vaccine Supply Needs Shot in the Arm
May 6
In Focus:
Peripheral 'Swatch' Watches Are Powerful Force in Modulating Body's Circadian Rhythms
Upcoming:
Ethics Forum: Death, Assisted Suicide, and the Double Effect: Why Oregon Matters
Spotlight:
Events Weekend Held at HMS for Admitted Minority Students
Student Scene:
Creating a Life? Fertility and Postgraduate Medical Education
April 29
In Focus:
New Tool Speeds Study of Mammalian Protein Function
Upcoming:
Psychiatry Grand Rounds: Aging Well
Spotlight:
Diversity and Community Partnership Goes Online
Student Scene:
Listening In on Terror
April 22
In Focus:
Changes in Brain Shown with Learning
Upcoming:
Ethics Forum: Time, Money, and Ethics--The Debate over 'Concierge Medicine'
Spotlight:
Gimbrone Gives Keynote at Soma Weiss
Student Scene:
Drawing Lines Between Medicine and Public Health
April 15
In Focus:
Answering AIDS
Upcoming:
Robert H. Ebert Lecture: A View from Within the White House
Spotlight:
Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair Reaches Web
Student Scene:
Living--and Dying--by Example
April 8
In Focus:
Myelin Cells Reveal Unexpected Genealogy
Upcoming:
Soma Weiss Student Research Day
Spotlight:
HST Forum Centers on Human Genome
Student Scene:
Military Research and Scientific Responsibility: Remembering Fritz Haber
April 1
In Focus:
Cellular Energy Crisis May Link Down Syndrome, Alzheimer's
Upcoming:
The Third Biannual W.H.R. Rivers Lecture: The Media and Medicine
Spotlight:
First Global Biosecurity Conference to Take Place in November
Student Scene:
Clinical Skills: Toward Meeting National Standards Locally
March 25
In Focus:
Death Protein May Cause Neural Tube Defects in Babies of Diabetic Mothers
Upcoming:
Ethics Forum: Bioterrorism's Threat: Public Health vs. Civil Liberties
Spotlight:
Fourth-years Meet Their Match
Student Scene:
A Longer Look at Short-term Medicine
March 18
In Focus:
Healthy Heart Keeps Polyrhythmic Beat
Upcoming:
Creating the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering: An Intriguing Past and Exciting Future
Spotlight:
The Anatomy of Organ Donation
Student Scene:
Campaign Against Polio Faces Last High Hurdle
March 11
In Focus:
Path of Mustard Immunity Traced, Found Similar to that of Vertebrates
Upcoming:
Public Health Seminar: The Prevention of Colon Cancer
Spotlight:
Biomedical Science Career Conference Draws International Student Audience
Student Scene:
Toward Globalizing Medical School
March 4
In Focus:
Unique Genes Found in the 7th Pandemic Cholera Strain
Upcoming:
Medical Ethics Forum: Organs for Sale? The Economics of Altruism
Spotlight:
Academy Inaugural Called 'Historic'
Student Scene:
Somehow, Providing Care Across Cultures
February 25
In Focus:
Unexpected Immune Pathway Linked to Rheumatoid Arthritis
Upcoming:
Harvard Health Caucus Policy Roundtable Series: Health Care Education in the Developing World: Bridging Global and Local Health Care Practices
Spotlight:
Cell Veil Lifted on Actin Activity
Student Scene:
A Laureate's Lesson: Ideas Outshine Data
February 18
In Focus:
Researchers Eye Earliest Triggers of Age-related Macular Degeneration
Upcoming:
Office for Diversity and Community Partnership Forum: The Elimination of Ethnic Health Disparities
Spotlight:
Drought Found to Be Early Predictor of West Nile Virus
Student Scene:
CDC Director Points Up Common Global Agenda in Health Care
February 11
In Focus:
Hormone Leptin Tied to Fat Breakdown in Muscle
Upcoming:
Office for Diversity and Community Partnership Forum: The Elimination of Ethnic Health Disparities
Spotlight:
Colleagues Remember Don Wiley, the Scientist and Man
Student Scene:
Countering the Culture of Test-Taking
February 4
In Focus:
Mouse Model Devised that Develops Asthma
Upcoming:
The Harvard Health Caucus
Spring 2002 Policy Roundtable Series: The Globalization of Health
Spotlight:
Cancer Center Builds on Bench-Bedside Links
Student Scene:
Alliance Expands Global Vaccine Effort
January 28
In Focus:
Mutation Reported with AIDS Vaccine
Upcoming:
2002 Pan Boston Oral Science Research Retreat
Spotlight:
From Bench to Bedside: A Scientist Makes the Switch
Student Scene:
A S.L.I.M. Chance for the Evolution of Lab Research
January 21
In Focus:
RNA Nuggets at Nerve Synapse May Fuel Memory, Learning
Upcoming:
HMS Second-year Show: Viva Las Vagus
Spotlight:
The Second-year Show: "Viva Las Vagus: The Angina Monologues"
Better Way Found to Predict Outcome of Childhood Brain Tumors
Student Scene:
The Lab as a Business
January 14
In Focus:
Protein May Tip Balance in the Fate of a Cell
Upcoming:
HMS Second-year Show: Viva Las Vagus
Spotlight:
Sleep Medicine Weaves Website
Student Scene:
Bedside Matter: Medical Engineering and Physics Meet Patient Care
January 7
In Focus:
Polarity Gene Yields Clues to Organization of Cell Signaling, Structural Growth
Upcoming:
McLean Hospital Lecture Series at the Museum of Science: Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse
Spotlight:
Harvard-Partners Genotyping Facility Opens
Student Scene:
HMI Partner Offers Clerkship in India