In 1953, while still at Tufts CollegeMedical School, Mel Simpson published a landmark paper demonstrating the ATP dependence of intracellular protein degradation. A year later, after moving to the Department of Biochemistry at Yale University Medical School, Simpson described his enigmatic results in a latenight discussion with a newly minted Instructor recently arrived from postdoctoral traini...

Objective: Because the practical application of motivational interviewing (MI) for health practitioners has been highlighted as a limitation to the approach, the purpose of this pilot study was to assess the impact of a one-day training workshop in MI applied through Co-Active life coaching (CALC) skills on health care practitioners’ perceived competence, autonomy and attitudes toward facilitat...

1 Pratter MR, Irwin RS. Usefulness and safety of pharmacological bronchoprovocation challenge in evaluating patients with normal spirometric tests who are suspected of having asthnaa. Chest 1988; 93:898-900 2 Pratter MR. Irwin RS. The clinical value of pharmacological bronchoprovocation challenge. In a recent review ofprimary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the possible association of this disease wit...

In 1959 Irwin Freedberg, after four years at Harvard Medical School and three years of residency at Beth Israel Hospital, arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital to begin his residency in dermatology. I, by chance, arrived at the same time, having attended the same medical school, interned at the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, and served as a medical officer in the field artillery during th...

* From the Department of Genetics (paper No. 712) and Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin. This project was supported in part by the Research Committee of the Graduate School from funds supplied by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and in part by a research grant and C-4051(R1) to H. Vermund) (G-3884 to M. R. Irwin) grants from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfar...

With its opening in March 1994, the Annette and Irwin Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, launched a new era at the university's medical center. The new building is the culmination of much effort, involving the time and talents of many dedicated individuals. Because of its advanced technological features and its modernistic design, the building might be r...