Volume 14 / Number 3 Fall 1996 UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY (UMDNJ) President Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., M.D. Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance Frederick J. Hammond, Jr. Vice President for Administration Celia Dorantes Abalos, Esq. Director, University Marketing Communications and Executive Editor Barbara Hurley HEALTHSTATE Editor Eve Jacobs Senior Editor Margaret Keenan Contributing Writers Merry Sue Baum Barbara Iozzia Editorial Assistants Mamie Hargrove Mark O'Connell Photography Coordinator Doris Cortes Business Coordinator Patricia Staley Design McMillin Giacalone Thompson Design Advertising Agent The Coppola Group (212) 222-7960 UMDNJ SCHOOLS: UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School UMDNJ- New Jersey Dental School UMDNJ- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences UMDNJ- School of Health Related Professions UMDNJ- School of Nursing UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School UMDNJ- School of Osteopathic Medicine UMDNJ'S HEALTH CARE FACILITIES AND CORE-AFFILIATED HOSPITALS: UMDNJ- University Hospital, Newark University Behavioral HealthCare, Newark University Behavioral HealthCare, Piscataway Cooper Hospital /University Medical Center, Camden Kennedy Memorial Hospitals- University Medical Center, Stratford, Cherry Hill, Washington Township Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick University HealthCare Corporation (UHC) is UMDNJ's statewide, integrated managed care network. UMDNJ is a member of University Health System of New Jersey,a consortium of the University and its major teaching hospitals. HEALTHSTATE is published three times a year by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. If you wish to reprint any material, contact the editor. Address correspondence to: Editor, HealthState, UMDNJ, Office of University Communications, Room 121, 30 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ, 07107-3000. For change of address, please enclose mailing label. Subscriptions are $10 a year. Make check payable to HealthState and mail to above address.

what's new? Fall brings a new school year, a fresh start to learning, a quickening tempo of life. It's a season that heralds change. In this fall issue, you'll notice some changes to HealthState, too. The major one is that we will now publish three rather than four times a year. Because paper, printing and other services necessary to create a magazine have gradually become more expensive, we decided to eliminate one issue rather than sacrifice the quality our readers have come to expect. We plan to have each issue so packed with lively articles that you'll hardly miss that fourth one. A new department debuts with this issue - continuing medical and dental education. We're launching it with Dr. Leonard Sigal's review of the state of the art on Lyme disease, a subject that should be of interest to all health care providers in New Jersey. A test is included so you can see how up-to-date you are. We're eager to get feedback on how you like this section and to hear your suggestions for other continuing education topics. We particularly hope it appeals to alumni, since we will no longer be carrying class notes. Several of the schools are producing their own alumni magazines or newsletters and they will include class notes. We think there's a feature for everyone in this issue - from everything you ever wanted to know about piercing and tattooing to how computers are affecting medicine. Cybermedicine is growing so fast that we couldn't possibly cover all that's going on at the University - this is simply a sampling from an extensive menu. And speaking of cyberspace, we invite you to visit our website at www2.umdnj.edu/hstatweb/hstate.html or e-mail us at hseditor@umdnj.edu with comments about the magazine. The Editors "He's in an H.M.O. Get some of the King's horses and a few of the King's men."

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