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The Clinical Center’s new Pain and Palliative Care Consult Service opened in August and already boasts more than 100 patients. The service uses a multidisciplinary approach to manage patient’s pain, and the associated symptoms.

The Clinical Center’s Dr. Harvey J. Alter received the 2000 Lasker Award for clinical medical research during ceremonies in New York City on Sept. 22. He shares the award with Dr. Michael Houghton, a scientist with the Chiron Corporation.

The CC Clinical Pathology Department was recently renamed the Department of Laboratory Medicine.

In its early stages, there are usually no symptoms associated with osteonecrosis, or avascular necrosis (AVN). It often progresses as a painful, debilitating disease. 

CC and NIAID investigators have demonstrated that a disabling bone disorder—osteonecrosis (bone death) of the hip—is surprisingly common among patients with HIV infection.

The CC Imaging Sciences Program  will unveil the first phase of its new Picture Archiving and Communication System and Radiology Information System this month with the initiation of a sophisticated patient tracking system.

Dr. John Leo Doppman, 72, chief of the CC Diagnostic Radiology Department for 26 years, died of cancer on Aug. 21 at the Clinical Center.

Dr. John Laws Decker, Clinical Center director and NIH Associate Director for Clinical Care from 1983 until his retirement in 1990, died of a heart arrythmia July 13 in Bethesda.

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).