Stephen T. Earls, MD, clinical associate professor in family medicine & community health, is quoted in an article about proposed regulation which would require tighter control of drugs that include hydrocodone, an opioid found in Vicodin and dozens of other brand-name products. | TIME named UMass Medical School’s Katherine Luzuriaga, MD, to the 2013 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Dr. Luzuriaga, professor of pediatrics and medicine, was part of a team of researchers that last month reported the first case of a so-called “functional cure” in an HIV-infected infant.
| A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD, co-director of the program in systems biology and professor of molecular medicine, discusses her new work which shows that the precise composition of a diet can have profound health effects, suggesting that exactly what’s in each mouthful may matter more than anyone anticipated. | Jesse Columbo, School of Medicine class of 2013, learns he’ll spend the next six years training in vascular surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in New Hampshire. |