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Volume 14 • No 1 • Summer 2017

Noteworthy

They said it!

Katherine Rauen

When you see rare syndromes, and you see a lot of them, you start picking out patterns.

Geneticist Katherine Rauen, M.D., Ph.D., in an Atlantic article exploring connections between a well-studied cancer pathway and autism.
George Thompson, M.D.

We found basically everything that, if you’re really immunosuppressed, you don’t want.

Infectious disease specialist George Thompson, M.D., in a WebMD story on his study that found several potentially dangerous pathogens in samples of dried dispensary marijuana.
JoAnne Natale, M.D., Ph.D.

Disparities in research participation may compromise the generalizability and validity of study findings.

Pediatrics professor JoAnne Natale, M.D., Ph.D., in Reuters coverage of her study suggesting that white parents may be more likely than African American or Hispanic parents to allow their children to participate in a medical trial.
David Shatz, M.D.

As far as we know, the spleen is the only organ that can do this.

David Shatz, M.D., a surgical critical care specialist whose research focuses on spleen trauma, in an NPR health news story about the organ and its unique ability to multiply.
Magdalena Cerdá, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.

You have a situation where people might be particularly vulnerable to perhaps using prescription opioids to self-medicate a lot of symptoms of distress related to sources of chronic stress — chronic economic stress.

Social epidemiologist Magdalena Cerdá, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., in an NPR article examining the nationwide opioid epidemic.
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