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	An education in taste  (cover story) Start with one legendary French chef. Combine with Yale scientist and expert in the physiology of taste. Mix with fine food for two hours and record. Yields one conversation rich in flavor and detail. A conversation with Marc Wortman A running conversation about children What results when pediatricians and child psychiatrists carry on a 40-year dialogue about the care of their young patients? A deeper understanding of the psychosocial influences affecting child health, say the members of this unique collaboration. By John Curtis Patients, doctors and the bottom line Market forces and a changing world of medicine have prompted Yale’s 650-member physician organization to take a closer look at the way it does business. A greater emphasis on patient service, detailed practice standards and better ways of tracking data are emblematic of a changing culture within the school’s clinical enterprise. By John Curtis ‘We have a remarkable community here’ Susan Hockfield, an accomplished neurobiologist and new dean of the Graduate School, talks about the future of research, teaching and Yale’s community of scholars. Interview by Michael Fitzsousa		Scope Congress Avenue project gains backing  |  Seeking out “hidden” HIV  |  “First aid” for medical students  |  Lyme vaccine hits the market  |  “What’s in your medicine cabinet?”  |  A “toxic mismatch” in Havana   |  NCI renews Cancer Center’s designation  |  Graduate students celebrate common ground  |  Students volunteer in Macedonia refugee camp  |  Elective C-sections and HIV  |  Outlook for Y2K  |  Digital imaging comes to library  |  A new target for chemotherapy  |  Tumor-starving drugs  |  Salmonella vector overcomes an obstacle  |  Odor receptor genes in fruit flies discovered  |  A simple test to predict Alzheimer’s  Faculty news New books Student news Letters Bookend

	Yale Medicine, Spring 1999. Copyright © 1999 Yale University School of Medicine. All rights reserved.