Smoothing the road
To advance orthopaedics, couple bequeaths estate to the School of Medicine
For someone who spent a lifetime in orthopaedics, mending hands, knees and hips damaged by age or trauma, Michael J. Cummings, M.D., a 1965 graduate of the School of Medicine, has adopted a rather bone-jarring hobby in retirement. He and his wife, Susan, a retired practitioner, educator and consultant in acute-care nursing, are enthusiastic participants in extreme off-road driving events arranged by AM General, the Indiana company that manufactures the military and civilian versions of the...
It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but it supports cancer research at Yale
A recent gift to support cancer research at Yale seems, at first blush, to follow a familiar pattern: It came from a...
Cartoonist’s work on wartime trauma garners an award
In April, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, of “Doonesbury” fame, received the annual Mental Health Research Advocacy Award...
A scientific assault on brain diseases
Program to unravel Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s gears up for a tough battle
Head of Yale’s practices makes it his mission to serve patients’ needs
Yale geneticist wins Wiley Prize for hypertension research
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics, an internationally known expert on the...
Expert on myeloma, cancer vaccines to head hematology
Madhav V. Dhodapkar, M.D., an expert on multiple myeloma and monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS), the...
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