http://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/index.htmlTop stories from Yale School of Medicine's InranetSun, 02 Sep 2007 23:16:27 GMTFri, 08 Feb 2008 22:47:27 GMTFeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) unlicensed version http://www.feedforall.comhttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2008/02/04022008.htmlWhen the curtain came down on Mamie Air's career as a ballet dancer, the Yale medical student found a way to re-channel her passion for the art form. Today she’s helping future dancers avoid injury.{7dd8ad0-e695-8ac0-f76a-d85dc885ae18}Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:47:21 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2008/01/28012008.htmlPresidential candidates aren't the only ones who are chronically sleep deprived. There's a national trend toward less sleep, and it has serious public health ramifications.{d7bd9c90-917d-d4c2-326a-c33cd913f836}Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:46:35 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2008/01/22012008.htmlCancer survivor Pat Sclafani is spearheading the launch of a thoracic cancer tissue bank at Yale Cancer Center, so researchers can better understand and treat cancers of the chest.{fad81c0e-1b9d-bb9-47b1-a6888f111d58}Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:45:51 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2008/01/14012008.htmlA new play by actress and writer Anna Deavere Smith about the resilience and fragility of the human body was hatched at Yale, where Smith interviewed doctors and patients.{c22937f8-5b56-e9d7-8b88-9e90f28069a4}Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:45:15 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2008/01/07012008.htmlOphthalmology patients used to have trouble finding parking spaces -- and it had nothing to do with their eye sight. Ease of access is just one of many new features offered at the center's new home.{3040e73a-b375-953d-e4d8-fa09718bd647}Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:41:27 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/12/10122007.htmlIn two years, HAVEN Free Clinic, a treatment center run by students in Yale’s health schools, has become an important community resource, but with success comes a new set of hurdles.{391f3933-918e-8b3b-ebf4-9cff530e7b2c}Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:40:40 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/12/03122007.htmlHarnessing the spirit of cooperation that develops among nations during a health crisis to address non-health issues is an idea that is catching on globally -- and at Yale.{39f175db-8269-b6b6-a8c0-b722b84c92fd}Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:40:05 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/11/26112007.htmlYale surgeon Julie Ann Sosa has performed surgeries on five members of the same family who have a chromosome mutation that causes a rare and severe form of thyroid cancer.{cc5f5bfc-2008-cf3-58f1-838f3a20eadf}Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:39:16 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/11/19112007.htmlThrough Diabetes Awareness Day and other community outreach projects, medical school investigators hope to advance scientific research and public health at the same time.{3ef1a979-8230-3dc3-b643-5a602eccc3c3}Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:38:32 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/11/12112007.htmlJim Emerling, a member of the construction crew that is adding the Smilow Cancer Hospital to the New Haven skyline, brings his work home with him -- and his family and friends are glad he does.{64b7e62f-2938-2766-27d8-fe7e946e4a18}Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:38:03 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/11/06112007.htmlJohn Barrasso, a Yale-trained orthopaedic surgeon and now a U.S. senator from Wyoming, was spared the bronco ride that is a run for federal office. He’ll enter that ring in 2008.{44b4df3b-2e80-58a8-cab2-7a4e16175f30}Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:39:22 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/11/01112007.htmlWith a menu that includes Zipcars, buses, vanpools and other alternatives to driving to work alone, Yale is taking steps to reduce the size of the university’s “carbon footprint.”{f85f3487-caea-e7b0-197a-8d704a9f3f83}Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:39:00 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/29102007.htmlIn the 1950s the medical school’s department chairs sat for moulages, three-dimensional molds of their faces. If moulages were good enough for them, why not for you this Halloween?{b247e740-60a9-8fd9-7fdf-11463d03bd90}Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:38:38 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/25102007.htmlExperts from across the cancer spectrum, including the head of the Food and Drug Administration, participated in a forum at the medical school to discuss the future of cancer research.{97e0951-6a88-d45d-4865-c1eeb4103958}Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:54:28 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/22102007.htmlJoanna Price, Yale's new coordinator for community science programs, aims to inspire the next generation of researchers by bringing cutting-edge science into the classroom. {6bf93beb-f898-4f47-cad4-23cc994ac66b}Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:53:59 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/19102007.htmlNosebleeds are the most common symptom of HHT, a rare, sometimes life-threatening genetic disorder. Yale doctors are helping families worldwide cope with this often-misunderstood ailment.{e425b62d-bd47-fcbe-202b-b8cbf06753c}Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:11:15 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/17102007.htmlAfter falling on hard times, a student-run medical journal is riding high again with a wider audience on the web and a new staff. Founder Milton Winternitz would be proud.{b2cec38d-7d1d-8b11-de4b-a6a1a89787e}Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:00:48 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/15102007.htmlTurkish-born surgeon Sukru Emre, a liver and kidney specialist who arrived at Yale in July from New York, leads a revived center for organ transplantation at Yale.{1fd2bbe0-2a67-33aa-4e6-433a99ec5912}Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:49:16 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/11102007.htmlPediatrician Howard Pearson has teamed with Paul Newman, tangled with Don Imus and trained with the best, but it’s his young patients who have made him the acclaimed clinician he is today.{168ba206-ae45-dd18-25ff-fdf1f064c9c9}Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:58:46 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/08102007.htmlA new $23.4 million grant supporting 14 projects in multiple disciplines will propel research into the connections among stress, self-control, substance abuse and addiction.{74777d33-3860-38ed-f6f4-ab0d5d97ebe}Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:12:48 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/05102007.htmlThe new research building at 10 Amistad Street is home to three programs focusing on translational research, linking basic studies in animal models to potential cures.{fe5fb802-ec62-2d1f-962f-c68e3b50ca6c}Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:02:41 GMThttp://medicine.yale.edu/ysminfo/top_story/2007/10/03102007.htmlComputed tomography (CT) scans, which are used to identify everything from brain tumors to the reason for a patient’s acute abdominal pain, are an invaluable diagnostic tool, but too much exposure to the radiation they use could increase a patient’s risk of cancer, according to a Yale physician.{b817bd2d-7613-dcbe-874b-56f1ba2ed6c2}Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:55:12 GMThttp://info.med.yale.edu/ysm/ysminfo/top_story/2007/09/28092007.htmlAnatomy professor Bill Stewart, who has introduced medical and PA students to the inner workings of the human body for the last three decades, is back on the job after spinal surgery and rehabilitation.{bd70ec18-35c4-46aa-cae5-a7e1eed1b5bb}Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:06:21 GMT