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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [668 KB]
Where NIH clinical researchers study.
Jack Paradise’s latest thoughts on
ear tube placement.
Learning to do more with less in Malawi.

INVESTIGATIONS [387 KB]
A different note from mom—
this one is written on DNA.
Tracy Davido wins a big
national student research award.
Bladders aren’t as simple as you might think.

MATCH LIST [113 KB]
Where the Class of 2001 ended up.

ATTENDING [526 KB]
P. S. Reddy has helped tens of thousands of rural Indians become healthier.

ALUMNI NEWS [697 KB]
Class notes.
Pilot and physician Paul Turnquist, MD ’94.

LAST CALL [205 KB]
Another match.

COVER STORY

Photo of the late Claude Scott—a father, teacher, and Parkinson’s patient—by Marc Esser. Reprinted with permission from the Parkinson’s Alliance.

Garbled Messages [228 KB]
A complex game of telephone tag may lead to neuronal death, and Parkinson’s.
COVER STORY BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

FEATURES

Eye of the Storm [1.2 MB]
Alum Paul Paris’s team runs the equivalent of an emergency medicine control tower at the top of Scaife.

 They Won't Soon Forget [269 KB]
Somebody should make a TV show out of this stuff. Alumni tell ER tales.
FOLLOW UP BY MARK JACOBS

Muscle Bound [1.01 MB]
Arnold Schwarzenegger just got more interesting. A Pitt researcher has found a fountain of youth—stem cells, that is—in muscle.
BY ROBERT MENDELSON

No Larger Than Life [723 KB]
When Georgia Duker and James Johnston go home, it's not unusual for the conversation to turn to how to reach students. Maybe that's why their names come up almost everytime the school collects nominees for teaching awards.
BY DOTTIE HORN