Yale researchers have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to study bathing disability in elderly persons and ultimately to enhance safe and independent bathing among older persons. Disability in bathing-the need for...
A strong advocate for the protection of human subjects in research studies, Robert Lange, associate clinical professor of diagnostic radiology, died October 6 in New Haven at age 69. “Bob was a patient and caring teacher and scientist, as well as a...
Martin E. Gordon, M.D., a distinguished member of the Yale School of Medicine’s class of 1946 and a clinical professor of medicine, has been awarded the Dean’s Peter Parker Medal for outstanding contributions to medicine and the well being of the Yale...
Susan E. Hardy, M.D., instructor in geriatric medicine at Yale School of Medicine, was recently awarded a 2004 Pfizer/Foundation for Health in Aging Junior Faculty Scholar Award for Research on Health Outcomes in Geriatrics. Hardy will receive $65,000...
Linking brain research and child development is the theme of the Comer School Development Program (SDP) 35th anniversary celebration banquet and symposium October 11 at 4 p.m. and October 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale...
Black and Hispanic patients experience marked delays in heart attack treatment compared with whites, Yale researchers report in an article published in the October 6 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The study of approximately 110,000...
In a whole new approach to asthma research, scientists at Yale have discovered that a molecule called Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) likely plays an important role in the development of the disease and raises the possibility of new asthma...
The National Cancer Institute recently awarded a five-year, $7.5 million program project grant to investigators at the Yale School of Medicine to continue studies on the role of viruses and mutant cellular proteins in tumorigenic transformation of cells...
Yale researcher Robert S. Sherwin, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, is one of four physician-scientists recognized by Novartis Pharmaceuticals for significant and innovative research, clinical practice advances...
The St. Petersburg/New Haven Partnership for HIV/AIDS Care, Treatment and Support will be launched on today from 3 to 5 p.m., New Haven City Hall, 165 Church St. Opening remarks will be made by New Haven mayor The Honorable John DeStefano, Jr. and...