March 23, 2018

To Maintain Public Trust, Manage Conflict, Counsels DeAngelis
By Rich McManus
Before she could address the need for physicians to negotiate successfully the inevitable challenges of conflict of interest, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor-in-chief emerita of the Journal of the American Medical Association, had to deal with a cultural difficulty.

What Organ Formation, Function Tell Us About Overcoming Mutations
By Carla Garnett
Why do some mutations lead to disease while others seemingly overcome injury without harm? How do some cells pinch hit for their missing or hurt comrades?
Help People with Disabilities Build Social Networks
By Eric Bock
Disability rights advocates have fought for accessible housing and transportation and reasonable accommodation at work and school.
LaMontagne Lecturer Considers ‘Mother of All Pandemics’
Writing in his diary on Sept. 27, 1918, Charles Corning, former mayor of Concord, N.H., described how flu was blazing through his corner of the world “as fire shrivels the fields, laying out communities and taking a toll of death unprecedented.”