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DEPARTMENTS

OF NOTE [1034 KB]
Sometimes, modern medicine’s miracles are not enough. The old Falk Library ain’t what it used to be. Like mother, like—don’t say it!

INVESTIGATIONS [1154 KB]
Resusci Anne has a little brother. Julie DeLoia thinks the uterine lining may affect fertility in ways we don’t understand. This just in: Schizophrenia alters basic nervous system circuitry.

98.6 DEGREES [81 KB]
Da, these folks are generous.

ATTENDING [526 KB]
Ewwww—that’s cool!
Paul Caplan goes beyond the back twinge.

ALUMNI NEWS [697 KB]
When the new chair of family medicine was born, her mother wasn’t allowed to deliver in the local hospital.

LAST CALL [205 KB]
Legends in their own time?

COVER STORY

Pitt investigators are hot on the tracks of a suspect molecule. (Illustration by Paul Gilligan/Artville)

Here, Then Gone [1.55 MB]
It’s invisible, has a half-life of six seconds, and disappears when its work is done. Scientists are just starting to understand nitric oxide’s physiological importance, and Pitt surgeons have led the way.
BY EDWIN KIESTER JR.

FEATURES

Opportunity of a Lifetime [813 KB]
If the Area of Concentration program is extra work, students haven’t noticed. 
BY DOTTIE HORN

Best Supporting Character [1,095 KB]
Richard Simmons wants to put surgeons like himself out of business.
BY ROBERT MENDELSON

Breathing Easier [3.39 MB]
Get him a cocktail napkin: It looks like Robert Bridges has served up a promising treatment for cystic fibrosis.
BY ROBERT MENDELSON

Taboo Organ [47 KB]
He’s considered a father of modern mammography, but Robert Egan, MD ’50, claimed America’s peculiar attitudes hampered advancements.
BY REBECCA SKLOOT