Yale Cuts Ties With the Sacklers Over Opioid Disaster

Yale Cuts Ties With the Sacklers Over Opioid Disaster

from The Daily Beast Purdue Pharma has donated millions of dollars to Yale University including endowing two professorships and a program in the sciences. Mathew Murphy Senior News Editor Published Mar. 09, 2022 12:16PM ET  Yale is severing ties with the Sackler family, the founders of pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma, which has donated millions of dollars to…

Too much reality: Putin’s Ukraine invasion summons Europe’s dark past

Too much reality: Putin’s Ukraine invasion summons Europe’s dark past

Editor’s Note: This is a recent Op-Ed published by a classmate.  Send in any that YOU have had published recently.

Putin must be stopped by force, and his American apologists must be thoroughly discredited, much as Hitler and Mussolini and their American apologists and collaborators were, even if doing so requires pain and sacrifice from the rest of us.

What T.S. Eliot called “very much reality” doesn’t stop there. […]

Yale School of Public Health to become independent school

Yale School of Public Health to become independent school

from Becker’s Hospital Review Cailey Gleeson (Twitter) – Friday, February 25th, 2022 The Yale School of Public Health will transition into a self-supporting, independent school, and its leaders have pledged $150 million of endowment toward the school’s teaching, research and practice, they said Feb. 24. The organizational changes were based on input from the school community through listening sessions,…

Leaning into Taxes!

Leaning into Taxes!

Editor’s Note: It’s time to share our Second Acts, new commitments or zig/zags that might delight or challenge classmates. It’s a new section called “Onward,” and here’s the first one. (Send yours!)

Want an excellent mental challenge to hold off cerebral atrophy?! Here’s one you might want to consider. First, a bit […]

Rosenbaum

Class Colloquium 13: Depression, a discussion with Dr. Jerry Rosenbaum, March 9th at 1:30 pm EST

What IS “Depression” anyway?   Not the economic one — the psychological one.  And what is going on when Depression hits later in life, in your 70s?

Our guide will be a world-class expert, classmate Jerry Rosenbaum, MD, who served as former Chief of Psychiatry at Mass General. (See his incredible resume for more.)  Jerry will share the latest understanding of clinical depression in septuagenarians and report on promising new therapeutics (including psychedelics). Register now for March 9th at 1:30 pm EST.