Chairman, Editorial Board
Donald F. Tapley, M.D.
Senior Deputy Vice President for Health Sciences

Editor
Bonita Eaton Enochs
Assistant Vice President, External Relations
Director of Publications

Science Editor
William Allstetter

Contributing Writers
Paul Candon
Nicholas Christy, M.D.
Michael Hyde
Chris Tedeschi
Kristen Watson

Assistant to the Editor
Angela Muniz

Alumni News Editor
Marianne Wolff, M.D.

Alumni Writer
Peter Wortsman

Designer
Howard Roberts
HRoberts Design

Editorial Board
Rita Charon, M.D.
Suzanne Cullinane. 00
Kenneth Forde, M.D.
Bruce Forester, M.D.
Oscar Garfein, M.D.
Leonard C. Harber, M.D.
Corrine Horn. 00
Edgar Housepian, M.D.
Georgiana Jagiello, M.D.
Jonathan LaPook, M.D.
Stephen E. Novak
Carmen Ortiz-Neu, M.D.
Herbert Pardes, M.D.
Keith Reemtsma, M.D.
John Schullinger, M.D.
Joseph Tenenbaum, M.D.
John Truman, M.D.
Myron Weisfeldt, M.D.

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The editor acknowledges the help of Angela Muniz of the Office of External Relations in preparation of this issue.

Letters

Faculty Remembered: Albert Grokoest, 1917-1991

Clinical Advances

• Bypassing heart transplants
• Squeezing the pain away
• Asthma center provides comprehensive care

Research Reports

• LDL cholesterol increases risk of dementia after stroke
• New compound reduces stroke damage
• Memory loss patterns help in diagnosis of Alzheimer's
• Viagra offers women little benefit
• Gene associated with hair loss and immune suppression
• Moderate exercise may be best for congestive heart failure
• Olfaction receptors found in fruit fly

Scientists in the New ("Outside") World

Being a scientist was once a sheltered experience. With research budgets tightening and the growing popularity of non-scientific institutions, scientists are leaving their labs to help shape a new public image.

P&S Students

In the Humanities and Medicine Seminar, a second-year course, students strengthen their interpretive and narrative capacities as doctors.

Death of a Cell...by Suicide

Apoptosis is one of the hottest topics in biomedical research. Several P&S researchers have made fundamental discoveries about the basic mechanisms of cell suicide and its role in health and sickness.

When Helping the Homeless Means Treating the Homeless

Critical Time Intervention helps mentally ill homeless men make the transition into living in the community again.

P&S News

In Memoriam

Faculty and alumni who have died

Alumni Section

Profile: Charles S. Houston'39

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