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1. Under the Knife
Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

Boasting a Harvard degree and the blessing of Oprah Winfrey, Jan Adams was a medical celebrity. But when the beloved mother of hip-hop artist Kanye West died one day after Adams operated on her, a different face of Adams came to light.

2. R2D2, M.D.
Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

William Peine is looking for ways to marry advanced medical imaging technology with surgical robotics, medicine’s most glamorous tool for minimally invasive surgery (MIS).

3. Gene Therapy
Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

Three new books by Harvard alumni—a novel, a memoir, and a scientific history—explore several disturbing singularities of genetic determinism.

4. Dr. Groopman’s Prescription
Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Expert advice on how to diagnose your doctor before he diagnoses you.

5. Recovering Clayton
Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

George and Azita Fatheree seemed to have the perfect life: professional success, a loving marriage, a beautiful baby boy. Then a mysterious illness turned their son into a stranger.

6. The Master of Spin
Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

From cancer research to drilling for oil, Greg Favalora's 3-D holograms are a sci-fi fantasy brought to life.

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1. Manhattan Media Launches Ivy League Media With Aquisition of 02138
Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 05/12/2008

New division to roll out magazines, social networking sites, events for alumni of all eight Ivy League universities.

2. Harvard Boulevard
Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

Once upon a time, America’s oldest university dispatched its graduates to the well-known worlds of the East Coast: Wall Street and Washington, law, medicine, and journalism. Then, nearly a century ago, a few risk-taking outsiders, iconoclasts, and eccentrics ventured west to the unsettling new frontier of the movies. Today, Harvard and Hollywood are inseparable. From William Randolph Hearst to Natalie Portman, here is a map to Harvard’s stars.

3. Scenes From a Marriage
Magazine Archives Article : March/April 2008

The connections between the two H’s are nearly as old as the film industry itself. Some of the highlights ...

4. The Milk of Human Kindness
Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

A breastfeeding mother takes on the National Board of Medical Examiners over its test-taking rules. Is society paying attention?

5. Risky Business
Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Do we prepare too much for some kinds of disaster and not enough for others?

6. Passions Giving Guide
Magazine Archives Article : November/December 2007

Whether you're interested in donating money or time, here are some Crimson-connected nonprofits you might want to consider.

7. Stem Cells in Paris
Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

Two blocks from the louvre, a Harvard professor is creating a museum where artists and scientists can work their magic--together. Say bonjour to le laboratoire.

8. Blinded by Science
Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

In the years ahead, Harvard plans to spend billions of dollars on a massive science complex in Allston. But James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and former director of the Human Genome Project, has bad news: Unless the university changes course, Allston will be the greatest waste of money Harvard has ever known.

9. The Harvard 100
Magazine Archives Article : September / October 2007

It's back! Our second annual list of the university's most influential alumni.

10. Food for Fat
Editorial Blogs Posting : Shots in the Dark : 07/26/2007

Will a new Harvard study on obesity and social networks lead to the isolation of fat people?

11. You Are Now Free to Move About the Solar System
Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Meet the doctor who never got over his youthful obsession with Star Trek, Star Wars, and anything else having to do with rockets. His life goal: fostering a consumer-driven market for space technology and (why not?) a future colony on Mars.

12. The Rejects
Magazine Archives Article : May/June 2007

Every admissions office gets it wrong sometimes. Here’s our list of Harvard’s biggest mistakes.

13. Best Job Ever!
Magazine Archives Article : Spring 2007

Forget medicine, law, politics, and business. This pair of dissidents has forged a new career of on-camera mouthing off.

14. Mark Moffett, Ph.D. ’87
Tribe Posting : Spotlight : 01/11/2007

“I like to photograph things that have been considered impossible, or have never been shown before,” Mark Moffett says. Moffett—alias “Doctor Bugs”—has risen to prominence for snapping such rarities as a tarantula shedding its skin, which it does just once every year, and a Colombian golden dart frog that only three non-locals have seen alive—and that packs enough poison to be fatal to one thousand people.

15. The Healer
Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

Once again, Derek Bok has become president of Harvard at a time of crisis. But can he—or anyone—heal the wounded university?

16. Scotch Is For Drinking
Magazine Archives Article : Winter 2007

And Michael Simonetti is, frankly, obsessed.

17. Robert Treat Paine Storer, Jr., 83
Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/27/2006

Cofounded the Friends of the Vision Rehabilitation Center at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, where patients who could no longer benefit from surgery or medicine could get help coping with daily life; trustee at the infirmary for 33 years; became a champion fund-raiser for the Friends, tapping friends, relatives, foundations, former Harvard classmates, and the many contacts he had made during his more than 50 years as an insurance salesman; chairman of the New England Eye Bank; trustee of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; associate general insurance agent for John Hancock; served in World War II.

18. The Secretive Seven
Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue
19. Mushroom Crowd
Magazine Archives Article : Premier Issue

Andrew Weil, M.D., has studied mushrooms in every which way: as food, as medicine, and, he freely admits, as mind-altering substances. They’re fabulous, he reports—on all three counts. We asked him about his interest in mycology.

20. James J. "Gus" Siragusa Jr., 80
Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/19/2006

Served as a flight surgeon for the Navy in the Korean War; OB-GYN specialist in North Adams, Mass. and Springfield, Mass., from 1956-88; president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, publisher of the New England Journal of Medicine, 1987-88; president of the Hampden District Medical Society, 1963-84.

21. Louis Tobian, 86
Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/10/2006

Faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School, served as professor of medicine and chief of the Hypertension Division from 1964-94 and chief of the Division of Renal Diseases from 1964-76; clinician; served as President of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and of the American Society of Hypertension.

22. Edward Press, 93
Tribe Posting : Lives : 09/07/2006

Chief state public health officer in Oregon from 1967-79; emeritus professor of public health and preventive medicine and emeritus clinical professor of pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the Oregon Health Sciences University; started the first poison control center in the United States, in Chicago in 1953; served as a Major in the Air Force during World War II.

23. John Mebane, 91
Tribe Posting : Lives : 08/27/2006

Practiced internal medicine and cardiology at the Norris Biggs Clinic in Rutherfordton, North Carolina; Captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War II.

24. Philip Levine, 91
Tribe Posting : Lives : 08/13/2006

Research fellow in the department of orthopedic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and in molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; professor of dental medicine and associate sean for student affairs at the University of Connecticut Dental School; practiced dentistry for 16 years in Boston.

25. Paul Joseph Catinella, 94
Tribe Posting : Lives : 08/09/2006

Practiced dermatology and veterinary medicine; former physician-in-chief and president of medical staff at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; taught at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

26. James Jandl, 80
Tribe Posting : Lives : 08/03/2006

Emeritus professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School; author of the 1,500-page Blood: Textbook of Hematology, a book famous for its vast overview of the blood’s functions and diseases; also published Blood: Pathophysiology and Blood: Atlas and Sourcebook of Hematology.

27. Henry Scammell, 72
Tribe Posting : Lives : 08/02/2006

Co-author of The Road Back, which detailed a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis ignored by mainstream medicine and inspired the formation of the Road Back Foundation for research and education about rheumatoid arthritis.

28. William Davis, 86
Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/16/2006

Practiced and taught medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass. for over 33 years, holding positions such as chief of hematology and oncology, chief of medicine, and chairman of the departments of medicine.

29. Donald Pocock, 82
Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/08/2006

Founder of Medfact Patient Education Films; Medical Director of Hospice of Stark County; Medical Director, Quality Assurance, and Director for the Emergency Department at Masillion Community Hospital; Medical Director of Rose Lane and Gaslight Nursing Homes; private practice in Internal Medicine; professor of military science and tactics at Vanderbilt University; battalion surgeon in the Korean War.

30. Paul A. Lamothe, 86
Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/06/2006

Chief of medicine at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.; practiced internal medicine for 25 years in Natick; member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the American Heart Association.

31. Calvin Walter Schwabe, 79
Tribe Posting : Lives : 07/02/2006

Professor emeritus of epidemiology at University of California, Davis, and University of California, San Francisco; member of the Secretariat of the Division of Communicable Diseases of the World Health Organization; founding chairman of the Department of Tropical Health at the American Univeristy of Beirut, Lebanon.

32. Merrill B. Rubinow, 89
Tribe Posting : Lives : 06/28/2006

Proprietor of a private surgical practice for over forty years; chairman of the department of surgery, president of the medical staff, and member of the board at Manchester Memorial Hospital; physician and surgeon with George Patton's army in World War II; awarded the Bronze Star for valiant efforts.

33. Merrill B. Rubinow, 89
Tribe Posting : Lives : 06/25/2006

President of the medical staff at Manchester Memorial Hospital; chemist.

34. Malcolm Stuart McNeal Watts, 91
Tribe Posting : Lives : 06/09/2006

Professor of internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; editor of the Western Regional Journal of Medicine and other medical publications; served in the medical corps of the Army during WWII.

35. Dr. Jim Ryan, 59
Tribe Posting : Lives : 06/04/2006

Doctor specializing in occupational and environmental medicine; held executive positions in occupational medicine with the U.S. Postal Service; medical director of the occupational and environmental department at Boston Medical Center.

36. Robert N. Dunn, M.D., 63; Surgeon, Teacher, and Pilot
Tribe Posting : Lives : 05/23/2006
37. Hugh O. de Fries, 81; Navy surgeon, educator
Tribe Posting : Lives : 04/25/2006

A nationally respected surgeon and teacher who died April 13, Dr. Hugh O. de Fries made groundbreaking contributions to the field of otolaryngology. While serving in the Navy Medical Corps, de Fries developed new reconstructive surgery techniques for Marines who suffered severe head and neck injuries in Vietnam, according to his obituary in the Washington Post. During his tenure at the National Naval Medical Center and later at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, he also pioneered chemotherapy treatments and new surgical techniques for the treatment of head and neck cancers.

38. David Calkins, 57; Medical Educator
Tribe Posting : Lives : 04/18/2006

Dr. David Calkins, a Kansas City-born physician and medical educator, died last week in Concord, Massachusetts. A 1970 graduate of Princeton who went on to get degrees at Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government, Dr. Calkins worked as senior associate dean for e

39. Theodore Austin, 90; Medical Educator
Tribe Posting : Lives : 04/18/2006

Theodore Austin was not a man to settle for less. According to a death notice in the New Jersey Star Ledger, he was a provost of Union County College in Cranford and Scotch Plains, N.J., and an associate dean for hospitals at University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark. A major in the U.S.

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