Category: Features

That’s a great idea!
Student-driven IDEA Labs sparks entrepreneurial innovations designed to improve medical care

Mini M.D.
Eight weeks of life-and-death dramas, scientific wonders and medical breakthroughs: Mini-Medical School inspires students and faculty alike.

Collaborative visionary
As the science-fiction concepts of his youth became practical realities, Larry Shapiro was using his sense of collegiality, good humor and artistic style to lead a mission-driven enterprise in advancing human health.

Shared medicine
Canine companions share our lives. They even get similar cancers. These connections suggest a new frontier of mutually beneficial therapies.

O.R. prep
Surgery’s seismic shift from time- to competency-based training

Warning lights
Clinical studies begin on a tiny technology that could pinpoint arterial disease risks

Restoring joy
Understanding early childhood depression could alter the course of a life

Inspired by Saturday
The Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic makes a difference in the lives of its patients and the medical students who care for them.

The best defense
Vigilance, research and response to the threat of infectious disease