To help people quit smoking, a team of experts from Yale have created the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) and the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC). The Yale TTURC, which is part of CENTURY, was...
Two new studies by the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) will seek answers to questions such as “why do some women, people who drink, and people who are depressed, find it so hard to quit smoking?” and “why do some smoking...
Florence S. Wald, past dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and a founder of the hospice movement in the United States, was honored on October 25 as a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) during its annual meeting in Washington, D...
The Yale School of Medicine chapters of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) and Boricua Latino Health Organization (BLHO) will co-sponsor a community health fair titled “Healthy Haven 2001” on Saturday, November 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at...
The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) of the Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) has received a three-year grant for about $1.2 million from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the...
Two Yale School of Medicine researchers have been elected by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., to membership in the organization that recognizes major contributions to health and medicine and whose...
Yale School of Medicine faculty member and noted genetics researcher Tian Xu is the first recipient of a $100,000 Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance Rothberg Award for Courage in Research. An associate professor of genetics and assistant investigator with the...
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have described the means by which many common bacteria that cause potentially fatal diseases-such as food poisoning, typhoid fever, plague and dysentery-infect other cells, raising hopes for the development of new...
The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine (EPH) presented its annual Community Recognition Award to Dominick Maldonado, the HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the New Haven Health Department, in recognition of his efforts to bring...
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., the Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and director emeritus of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale, whose work dramatically altered the conduct of clinical research and the training of...