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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MAGAZINE | FEBRUARY 2004, VOL. 6, ISSUE 1
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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [314 KB]
University alumnus Paul Lauterbur
wins the Nobel for developing MRI.
Fashion and medicine.
An ER newbie.

INVESTIGATIONS [195 KB]
Pay no mind to the professor behind the curtain.
Students delve into life at the NIH.
Cells that behave like neurons could
explain an excruciating bladder condition.

ATTENDING [212 KB]
No one had seen ambulance attendants
like these before.

98.6 DEGREES [66 KB]
Richard Raizman on the transformative power of working in developing nations.

ALUMNI NEWS [212 KB]
Identifying the 20,000 human remains from the World Trade Center.
Public health is never dull when Bruce Dixon is involved.

LAST CALL [57 KB]
This will hurt us more than it hurts you.

COVER STORY


About the cover: If you’re going to be ready for a bioweapons attack, the first thing to do is imagine it actually happening. (© David Pohl.)

FEATURES

Lean on Me [198 KB]
The best, and perhaps most instructive, day of the week for these students is when they stop in to visit patients they’ve befriended.
BY MEGHAN HOLOHAN

Resistant to Damage [228 KB]
Finding more effective treatments for arthritis is going to take researchers with persistence. It’s a good thing Constance Chu is committed to the task.
BY DOTTIE HORN

Lessons from a Dark Winter [299 KB]
Pittsburgh is now the headquarters and proving ground for academia’s top biosecurity think tank.
COVER STORY BY CHUCK STARESINIC

When It Comes to Cancer, What's Rational? [116 KB]
Edward Prochownik is among a new class of researchers looking under the hood at cancer.

BY ROBIN MEJIA

 

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