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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [312 KB]
The School of Medicine gets a perfect score.
Cloning primates isn’t working.
Modern adventures on the Lewis and Clark trail.

INVESTIGATIONS [210 KB]
Simplifying neurotransmission pays off.
Worms with migraines unearth key genes.
Progesterone delays early labor.

ATTENDING [52 KB]
Minority med students have a
surrogate older sister in Paula Davis.

98.6 DEGREES [52 KB]
The Ashors plan now for future students.
New Pitt/UPMC foundation will make for
a healthier academic medical center.

ALUMNI NEWS [235 KB]
Peter Safar outdanced them all.
To learn the fine art of the physical exam,
students flock to Elmer Holzinger.

LAST CALL [58 KB]
Siren song.

COVER STORY

It’s the stuff of micro-screenplays: A virus pirates genes from the human genome. Yet by doing so, it gives scientists crucial clues to understanding cancer.
(© Bettman/CORBIS. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. as the star of The Black Pirate, 1926.)

FEATURES

Pirated Genes [273 KB]
A Rosetta stone for tumor biologists, compliments of a pilfering virus.
COVER STORY BY CHUCK STARESINIC

Down to the Bone [358 KB]
Does measles cause one of the most debilitating and common bone diseases?
BY ROBIN MEJIA

Soldiering On [71 KB]
Taking roll call with Veterans Affairs; time for an often-overlooked health center to stand up and be counted.
FOLLOW-UP BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

At the Heart of the Clinical Encounter [307 KB]
Up for examination: how doctors communicate with their patients.
BY DOTTIE HORN

First Family of Medicine [230 KB]
When Jack Myers and Jessica Lewis came to town, Pitt was forever changed.
BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.