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August 20, 2002
NIA/NIDA Poster Day Celebrates Decade of Student Learning
NIAMS Celebrates a Milestone in Health Disparities Research
NIDDK's Cushman
20th Camp Fantastic
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Epidemiologist Hauser Traces Roots of Epilepsy By Rich McManus
Occurring within the cloaked realm of the human cranium,
epilepsy — a firestorm in the brain that can incapacitate a
victim for seconds to hours — is a neurological disease whose
cause, in about two-thirds of all cases, is unknown. Because it
occurs in such an inviolate sanctum, epilepsy is most easily
examined from without. Therefore medicine deploys its least
invasive weapon — epidemiology — to probe the
phenomenon from its margins, detailing whom it hits, and when, and
in association with a great number of factors including age, prior
medical history, habits (including drinking and drug use) and genetic
legacy.
In-House Craftsman's Unit To Close By Carla Garnett
 Have you ever really needed a mouse milker? Where would you go if you wanted a contraption to sort rat waste? Ever seen a mosquito feeder (besides the occasional arm or leg during picnic season)? For more than four decades, NIH has never needed to look farther than Bldg. 13 for the man who not only knows each of these devices well, but also crafts them on demand. On July 23, Bill Dehn marked 40 years of wielding blowtorches at NIH. He will retire in January, and take with him NIH's last vestige of the centuries-old tradition of glassblowing. M O R E . . . |
