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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MAGAZINE | FEBRUARY 2005, VOL. 7, ISSUE 1
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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [496 KB]
Can a movie make you a better doctor?
A student’s work on behalf of abused women has permeated her medical life.

INVESTIGATIONS [322 KB]
Pain with no discernible physical cause looks credible on brain scans.
Gene therapy for head and neck cancer.
Could mutant protein curb cystic fibrosis?

98.6 [84 KB]
In spirit and action, Vinny Londino could easily have been confused with Saint Nick.

ATTENDING [319 KB]
How the feds have grappled with keeping controlled substances under control.

ALUMNI NEWS [200 KB]
My Way: Two alumni reinvent their practices.
Joseph Barbera wants to be on site at disasters, as long as he’s there by choice.

LAST CALL [353 KB]
Fire gods and the corruption of youth.

COVER STORY


Will 2005 be the year of polio’s worldwide eradication?
(©2001 Sebastião Salgado/Amazones Images/Contact Press Images.)

FEATURES

The King of Peptides [422 KB]
Before Klaus Hofmann came along, most hormone chemistry was hypothesis.
BY LEAH KAUFFMAN

The End of Polio [2707 KB]
It’s been 50 years since the Salk vaccine developed at Pitt was licensed, and the World Health Organization hopes to announce polio’s eradication this year. The road to ending the scourge has not been easy.
COVER STORY/PHOTO - ESSAY
BY SEBASTIÃO SALGADO AND EDWIN KIESTER JR.

Cyborg Medicine [471 KB]
If you hear about objects being controlled by mere thoughts, Andrew Schwartz is probably involved. The fantastic is commonplace in the world of computer-brain interfaces.
BY ERICA LLOYD

Why Do We Age? [444 KB]
By studying very short lives, a Pitt researcher may have found a mechanism at work in aging.
BY CHUCK STARESINIC

 

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