HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has appointed five new members to the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. They are Francine Berman, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Diego; Kathleen M. Giacomini, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco; John C. Goodman, Ph.D., of the National Center for Policy Analysis; Brian W. Matthews, Ph.D., of the University of Oregon; and Lisa Staiano-Coico, Ph.D., of the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University.