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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [345 KB]
The ABCs of autism.
A special kiss brings on puberty.
Sights set on eradicating polio in India.

CLOSER [111 KB]
Scaife’s Grammy nominee.

INVESTIGATIONS [394 KB]
What goes wrong in the “boy in the bubble” disease?
Certain cancers can’t be fought with radiation—and now we know why.
New insight on health disparities among African
Americans.

98.6 [174 KB]
Heartache spurs understanding.

ATTENDING [56 KB]
The history behind a silent office mate.

ALUMNI NEWS [1129 KB]
In adoption medicine, the pregnancy is in the paperwork.
Abraham Twerski left his father’s congregation to pursue the work he thought he’d do as a rabbi.

LAST CALL [437 KB]
French lessons.

COVER STORY

The toll neurodegeneration takes on our communities is staggering. In this issue, we focus on
two heavies: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. In a follow-up story, we’re invited along on a
father-daughter journey. (Illustration © Michael Lotenero.)

FEATURES

Stolen Lives [1119 KB]
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s: 5.5 million Americans afflicted, and that figure’s slated to increase. Is there no stopping these diseases? Our neurogurus respond. In a follow-up story, we learn how bugs might save our brains. (It makes more sense than you’d think.) In another, a Pittsburgh writer takes us on an eye-opening journey with her father.
COVER STORY BY DOTTIE HORN AND LEAH KAUFFMAN
FOLLOW - UPS BY CINDY GILL AND DOTTIE HORN

Twin Portals to the Brain [375 KB]
An astounding new surgical procedure was kept quiet at Pitt for five years. Why? Because you’d better have your act together before you tell people you can remove brain tumors the size of baseballs through the nose.
BY CHUCK STARESINIC

So You Want to Change the World? [261 KB]
Some people might say Catherine DeAngelis has reached a point in her life where she’s no longer afraid. “But I’ve never been afraid,” clarifies the editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
BY JESSICA MESMAN