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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [252 KB]
A student gives away a couple million each year.
This seat knows when you’re not paying attention.
Julius Youngner immortalized on canvas.

INVESTIGATIONS [195 KB]
A new compound allows doctors to detect amyloid plaque in living Alzheimer’s patients.
What is it about rapamycin, an immunosuppressant, that holds promise for cancer therapy?
Chilling trauma patients to buy time in the OR.

ATTENDING [105 KB]
Starting a family during medical school?
Apparently, it’s not as crazy as it sounds.

98.6 DEGREES [94 KB]
Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse seeds entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh and great science at Pitt.

ALUMNI NEWS [211 KB]
We are family: Coming together for the first Pitt med minority reunion. Ther great no-bowl Panthers of 1963 were champions on and off the field.

LAST CALL [41 KB]
What's in a name?

COVER STORY

Catherine of Siena (1347–1380) showed her devotion to God by denying herself food. Today, she’s thought to have had anorexia nervosa, as are other saints. What’s the biological link among young adults who’ve starved themselves through the centuries? (The cover painting by Linda Wallen is a modern interpretation of a late 14th-century fresco of St. Catherine by Vanni in the Church of San Domenico in Siena, Italy. © Linda Wallen.)

FEATURES

Refusing Sustenance [228 KB]
What did a 14th-century saint have in common with those who suffer from eating disorders today?
COVER STORY BY CHUCK STARESINIC

Walking Before Dawn [273 KB]
How a known pollutant became the next big thing. Alumnus
John Hibbs has spent a career chasing down nitric oxide.
BY ERICA LLOYD

Rack ’Em Up [157 KB]
Big breaks may be on the way for approaching deadly lung diseases.
BY DAVID R. ELTZ

All Together Now! [316 KB]
Giving birth to a 50-year-old—these are golden times for Scope and Scalpel.
BY MEGHAN HOLOHAN