Women under the age of 60 have a higher risk of dying than men under 60 in the two years after they suffer a heart attack, a study by a Yale researcher and collaborators shows. These sex-based differences in mortality rates are independent of the...
The Yale University School of Nursing’s Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care will hold its annual convocation February 27, featuring a keynote speech by nursing scholar Donna Diers. Amy S. Kuhner, the founder of a children’s hospice, and Janet...
Yale School of Medicine’s International Health Program, which sends U.S. physicians-in-training to countries in the developing world, will expand with funding from Johnson & Johnson. The Yale International Health Program (IHP) was founded in 1981 by...
Most nurses comfort the dying by listening to them and by administering pain medication, but more than half of the nurses in the hospital setting never discuss hospice care, a Yale study has found. The study was a collaborative effort conducted with the...
Using new DNA chip technology, Yale researchers have identified virtually all of the gene targets of some key proteins, known as transcription factors. Transcription factors tell a cell whether it will be, for example, a muscle cell or a nerve cell....
Breastfeeding for two or more years reduces a woman's risk of developing breast cancer by 50 percent, according to a study conducted by a Yale researcher among women in China.
The researcher, Tongzhang Zheng, associate professor of epidemiology and public...
Researchers are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in a pathway that prevents axon regeneration, a Yale researcher says. Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., who holds the Vincent Coates Chair of...
Yale researchers have received a $1.2 million contract to assist the U.S. Department of Defense in evaluating and assessing information technology that the government is developing to improve quality in medical care. The Yale group is working within the...
A new Yale study may help to clarify whether hemorrhaging in a baby’s eyes is due to child abuse or simply a lingering effect of birth. The researchers found that retinal hemorrhaging caused by the pressure of moving through the birth canal cleared up...
When the brain is stimulated, functional imaging results are misinterpreted by neglecting the resting brain neurotransmitter activity, a study by a Yale researcher concludes. “There is an assumption made in the use of PET scans and functional magnetic...