Abstract: . . .  has facilitated the organization of 10 NIH Alumni groups in Brazil, Eastern and Central Europe, China, India, Malawi, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Thailand and Uganda. The Brazilian group (NIHAABR), under the leadership of Dr. Valeria de Mello Coelho, is well un- derway. See its website: http:www/nihaabr/org/pt/. In the summer 2006 is- sue of Update we plan to have a column on what is happening in these vari- ous chapters. An Update on Foreign Chapters was at NIAID; Dr. Leon G. Smith, Jr. a prominent perinatologist; Dr. Annie Denchy, a radiologist; and Marshal Smith, a lawyer. Stephen and Michelle . . .
. . .  organization of 10 NIH Alumni groups in Brazil, Eastern and Central Europe, China, India, Malawi, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Thailand and Uganda. The Brazilian group (NIHAABR), under the leadership of Dr. Valeria de Mello Coelho, is well un- derway. See its website: http:www/nihaabr/org/pt/. In the summer 2006 is- sue of Update we plan to have a column on what is happening in these vari- ous chapters. An Update on Foreign Chapters was at NIAID; Dr. Leon G. Smith, Jr. a prominent perinatologist; Dr. Annie Denchy, a radiologist; and Marshal Smith, a lawyer. Stephen and Michelle work with their father in . . .
. . .  NIHAA Newsletter Board of Contributing Editors P. Elizabeth Anderson Linda Brown Giorgio Bernardi H. Franklin Bunn Henryk Eisenberg Lars A. Hanson George Klein Richard M. Krause Richard McManus Carlos Monge Roger Monier Michael Sela Annual Meeting (continued from p. 1) She added that complementary and alternative medicine use is widespread and that people who practice many forms of complementary and alterna- tive medicine seem to be healthier. For the most part, she said, NCCAM research focuses on products from the natural world, including food supple- ments, herbal products, or animal prod- ucts, . . .
. . .  decision-making. Some such at- tempts came from bosses, colleagues and fellow NIH’ers. Several VNMC members recalled small acts of vandal- ism — marking up protest flyers or tear- ing down posters — by workers here who disagreed with the committee and other war critics. Mark Levinthal, who came to NIH as an NIAMD postdoc, was already involved in civil rights ac- tivities with the Congress of Racial Equality when he jo . . .
. . .  research. For a historian inter- ested in medicine ’s re- sponse to the emer- gence of HIV/AIDS, there could probably have been no greater vantage point than the NIH intramural program in the early to mid- 1980’s. Dr. Victoria Harden, founding direc- tor of the Office of NIH History in the Office of Communications and Public Liaison, OD, found herself in this privileged position, hav- ing arrived on campus in 1984. At the third an- nual NIH History Day on Sept. 22, she treated a Lipsett Am- phitheater audience to an overview of NIH’s assault on AIDS. Drawing on more than 20 years of re- search that . . .
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