Three healthcare experts spent an hour and a half at a Yale School of Medicine panel on Sept. 16 striving to bring clarity to a national reform debate they all agreed has been obscure, frustrating and ultimately unenlightening.Yet the complexity of the...
Diarrhea-related diseases claim the lives of more than 1.5 million children each year, almost all in developing countries. Poor sanitary conditions, including contaminated water and food, are the major source of the bacteria and viruses that cause severe...
Dr. Robert J. Alpern is about to begin his second five-year term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.With over 1,000 students, almost 2,000 faculty and a budget approaching $1 billion, the enterprise over which Alpern presides is by far the largest of...
At the center of the sprawling 136-acre West Campus are three buildings that will house scientists who are using three distinct technologies yet who share an underlying mission: transforming the way biological research is conducted at Yale.“New...
Kevin Koo and other medical students filed into the Yale Center for British Art recently to spend the afternoon looking at paintings.While future physicians with heavy course loads at the Yale School of Medicine usually don’t have the time to ponder art,...
PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, will fund a graduate fellowship in the M.D.-Ph.D. Program at Yale School of Medicine to support research related to nutritional science.PepsiCo has also opened a long-term research...
Dr. Murat Gunel, the newly named Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery, specializes in the treatment of brain aneurysms and vascular malformations and is an expert on the molecular genetics of intracranial aneurysms and cavernous malformations.The...
Dr. David A. Hafler, newly designated as the inaugural Gilbert H. Glaser Professor of Neurology, is a leader in the effort to better understand the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS).The chief and chair of neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale...
Kevin A. Pelphrey, the recently appointed Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry, specializes in research aimed at understanding the development of social cognition in children with and without autism spectrum disorders and other...
Parker has no appetite even for his favorite food — strawberry ice cream cones — because his head and belly don’t feel well at all.After visits to many doctors, he finally goes into the city to meet Dr. Spott E. Dogg, who tells Parker and his mother some...