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Dr. Ann Berger is joining the staff to set up and head a new Pain and Symptom Management Service, which will help manage pain as well as other symptoms that make patients physically uncomfortable.

The Clinical Center’s Department of Transfusion Medicine is once again at the forefront of exciting new clinical research as its Cell Processing Section prepares islet cells for transplantation in an effort to cure diabetes.

Dr. Alex Kane, a fellow with the Clinical Center’s Diagnostic Radiology Department, is using gated MRI to image the soft palate, the upper part of the mouth which acts as a valve, opening and closing to enable us to form intelligible speech.

Using radiofrequency (RF) energy to “cook” and kill cancerous tumors without affecting surrounding healthy tissue may provide an alternative to surgery for patients with kidney and other cancers, according to Dr. Bradford J. Wood, a clinical investigator with the Clinical Center’s Diagnostic Radiology Department.

There are only 10 in the nation, and the Clinical Center is privileged to be home to one.

Clinical Research Information System or CRIS will eventually replace the aged Medical Information System, or MIS.

Researchers from the Clinical Center, NIAID, and other institutions have discovered a clue to the mystery of why up to 85 percent of patients fail to recover fully from an infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV).

A new pediatric outpatient clinic opened in April of 2000 on the 9th floor of the ACRE.

Dr. John L. Doppman retired in April 2000 after 36 years of service to the Clinical Center’s Diagnostic Radiology Department, including 26 as its head.

The NIH-Duke Training Program in Clinical Research (TPCR) has its first graduate, Dr. Douglas Shaffer, a fellow with the Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications of NHLBI.

Clinical Center pharmacists uncover a drug interaction with St. John’s wort.

Former Clinical Center patient Gianna Pedace Allentuck talks about her experience with chemotherapy at the Clinical Center as a participant in an NCI clinical trial in 1996.

Like beautifully colored gems extracted from a dark cave, original illustrations created for the Clinical Center’s popular Medicine for the Public (MFP) lecture series have been pulled from storage, framed, and put on display in Gallery I.

Thanks to the Clinical Center’s new Hospitality Services Program launched in December 1999, newcomers won’t have to wander and wonder anymore; they’ll have easy access to specially trained hospitality staff who will help them navigate this everchanging building.