In a study published in the journal Blood, Yale scientists identify the molecular triggers that stimulate Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma (CTCL) cells to clonally expand into large populations of malignant lymphocytes. CTCL is the most common adult malignancy...
Women diagnosed with early stage, non–invasive breast cancer who carry the same mutations in two inherited breast/ovarian cancer genes as women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, may benefit from high risk treatment, Yale researchers report in the...
The first Albert J. Solnit endowed lecture will be delivered by John E. Schowalter, M.D., The Albert J. Solnit Emeritus Professor of Child Psychiatry, on Monday, March 21, 2005 at 4 p.m. in the Donald J. Cohen Auditorium, Child Study Center, 230 South...
At a time when competition for research grant funds is at an all time high, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have turned a popular course on grant–writing into a practical “how–to” article published in the February 15 issue of Annals of Internal...
Women with a history of caesarean section deliveries do not have a higher risk of a subsequent stillbirth, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Columbia University. Yale Obstetrics and Gynecology scientist Mert Ozan Bahtiyar, M.D.,...
In support of the Yale Child Study Center’s School of the 21st Century (21C) in Arkansas, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF) has awarded the Center a $2.9 million grant. The goal of the Arkansas 21C Program is to ensure that children and families...
Expanded HIV screening can increase patient life span, prevent the spread of the disease, and is cost effective, researchers at Yale, Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital report in the February 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (...
The varicella vaccine is almost 90 percent effective against chickenpox, but its impact on herpes zoster (shingles) is unknown and needs wider surveillance, Yale School of Medicine researchers write in today’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
On a recent trip to India, Yale President Richard C. Levin and a delegation of Yale officials formally opened a new office for Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) housed at YRG Care, a non–profit organization based in Chennai. The...
George A. Silver, M.D., emeritus professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine and former deputy assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), died January 7 at age 91 in Chevy...