Preserving options, sustaining hope
Successful new method for freezing human eggs is now available at Yale
Thanks to a transatlantic collaboration forged by Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and director of the Yale Fertility Center (YFC), patients in the New Haven area, including women newly diagnosed with cancer who wish to preserve fertility during chemotherapy or radiation, can now reap the benefits of a new, uniquely successful form of the egg-freezing technique known as oocyte cryopreservation (OC).Although OC has been attempted in various...
$2 million gift will support training of physician-scientists
Of all the professions, learning medicine requires the greatest time commitment. After four years of medical school,...
Boehringer and Yale combine strengths in new research alliance
We live in an age of instant electronic communication, but in some arenas there’s no substitute for face-to-face human...
Can microRNAs put the brakes on cancer?
The complete sequence of the human genome, with its promise of new insights into disease and a host of novel drug...
Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D., Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, professor of...
Advances
Bullies are no match for gene knockout
After repeated harassment by larger, more aggressive members of their species, mice withdraw from...
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As many as 500,000 people per year in sub-Saharan Africa contract sleeping sickness, which can...
Read more...Along for the ride when cells divide
When a daughter leaves home, she packs her bags with provisions she’ll need to strike out on her...
Read more...Are skin cells guards or go-betweens?
Accounting for 15 percent of our body weight, and with an average surface area of 20 square feet,...
Read more...Out & About
Professor of Medicine and Pathology Philip W. Askenase, M.D., with his wife, exhibiting painter Marjorie Askenase. 
November 14: The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History was the setting for THINK BIG ABOUT CHILDREN’S HEALTH, hosted by Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., chair and Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics, and R. Lawrence Moss, M.D., associate professor of surgery and surgeon-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. 1. Ann Sherred and Scott A. Rivkees, M.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the Yale Child Health Research Center. 2. Moss with WTNH anchor Jocelyn Maminta and Gary Doyen.3. Lauren Tarshis, David Dreyfuss, and Annick Winokur. 4. From left: Hostetter, Michael Cappello, M.D., professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and public health, and director of the Yale Program in International Child Health, Joan R. Halpin, Harold J. Halpin Jr., and Harold J. Halpin III. 
November 11: Supporters of YALE PEDIATRIC SURGERY gathered at the Country Club of New Canaan at the invitation of Robert and Wendy Dewey. Associate Professor of Surgery R. Lawrence Moss, M.D., surgeon-in-chief at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, joined colleagues Milissa A. McKee, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of surgery, and Christopher K. Breuer, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and brother of Wendy Dewey, to present the department’s latest research and state-of-the-art surgical techniques for young patients. 1. Musician Edie Brickell.2. Barbara Breuer, Harriet Dewey and Jennifer Baxter.3. Andrea Ingalls, Tim Breuer and Eunice Lynch.4. Tori Dewey and Olivia Tabah.5. Robert Breuer and Robert Dewey. 6. Sarah Grow and Kendra Seth. 
ovember 17: The opening reception for ART PLACE EXHIBIT XI was held at the Yale Physicians Building. Art Place, an exhibit founded and funded by the Yale Medical Group (YMG), enriches the experience of YMG patients and staff with visual art. This year’s reception also featured readings from the third edition of Caduceus, a journal of poetry published by Art Place. 1.Caduceus editor Tony Fusco (back to camera) at the poetry reading. 2. Exhibiting potter Sally Tomiko (left) withfriends. 3. Fromleft: Art Place Director Lorraine F. Roseman and Artistic and Technical Advisor Terry Dagradi with Betty Monz, executive director of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. 
November 3: A gathering to celebrate the establishment of the Kenneth and Georgia BARWICK MEMORIAL FUNDS in Pathology and Humanities in Medicine was held at the Union League Cafe in New Haven. 1. Back row, from left: Dean RobertJ.Alpern, M.D., Mark E. Ludwig, M.D., Linda Hager,G.J. Walker Smith, M.D., Richard N. Eisen, M.D., Linda Brown,Howard M. Spiro, M.D., Marian Spiro,Thomas P. Duffy, M.D., Suzanne P. Lagarde, M.D., A. Brian West, M.D., and Lynda Tyrrell. Front row, from left: Elizabeth Mulvoy,Georgia Barwick,Sarah Barwick, and Lawrence D. True, M.D. 2. West with Marian Spiro. 3. Sarah and Georgia Barwick.
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