It will be an ideal data set for students and physicians who have a very specific hypothesis that can be answered using the information we already have available.

It will be a unique and powerful resource for the university and Kentucky. We want to be able to look at the interaction between environment and illness.

We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.

That's a general problem with biomedical research -- it's hard to attract the people who may need it most.

We found no consensus among physicians about what is customary or appropriate. Despite efforts to standardize many aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, patients are likely to encounter very different approaches.

Boone Pickens is one of this country's greatest philanthropists, and Eugene Frenkel is one of its finest physicians, so this partnership is as appropriate as it is meaningful.