NYU Physician
Fall 2006
Volume 58, No. 1
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Cover Story
Germ Cells Are Forever
The fruit fly, says Dr. Ruth Lehmann, Director of the new Kimmel Center for Stem Cell Biology, helps to reveal how generations are linked.
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Features
Teaming Up to Combat Melanoma
Waging war is a group effort, and never more so than when the foe is melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
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Trauma: When Minutes Count
At Bellevue Hospital, a team of NYU trauma surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, and other specialists defy death every day.
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A Man on a Rescue Mission
A Profile of Dr. Maurizio A. Miglietta, Chief, Division of Trauma & Critical Care, Bellevue Hospital
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Treating Trauma: What you need to know to save a life
By Dr. Maurizio A. Miglietta, Chief, Division of Trauma & Critical Care, Bellevue Hospital
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Joined at the Hip, Knee, Shoulder, Ankle …
Though a mile apart, NYU Medical Center and the Hospital for Joint Diseases, now merged, are closer than ever.
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Departments
From the Editors
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From the Dean
Celebrations, Traditions, and Transitions
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News from Medicine
New Drug and Tender Care Slow Disease
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Size Matters: Brain’s Inner Matrix Is Twice as Large as Once Estimated
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Promoting Suicide in Cancer Cells
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Gates Grant for $8.4 Million Goes to School of Medicine AIDS Researchers
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Hepatitis B Infection Rate Alarmingly High in NYC's Asian American Community
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Repairing Mitral Valves without Surgery
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Aggressive Treatment Can Extend Life of Patients with Heart Attack Shock
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Around Campus
Smilow Research Center Opens: Event marked by two-day celebration
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Physician, Scientist, Architect: Dean Glickman to step down in 2007, ending nine-year tenure
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New York State Helps NYU Build New Home for Child Study Center
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Philanthropy
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Faculty News
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Medical Education
Seeking Cures for the World's Ills
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Alumni News
Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Awards for 2006
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Alumni Profile
“Hope Amid Horrors”
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Class Notes
Dr. Richard Levin Named Dean of McGill
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