A method called prospective surveillance, which studies unexplained illness and death due to possibly infectious causes, allowed for earlier detection of emerging and reemerging infections in 73 percent of cases, Yale researchers conclude in a new study...
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tic disorders showed a 37 percent improvement when they took the medication guanfacine, an alternative to drugs like Ritalin, which can worsen tics, Yale researchers found in a new study...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have performed the first central nervous system transplantation to repair the myelin-forming cells in a woman with multiple sclerosis (MS). “The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether the procedure is...
Yale researcher Diane Krause testified today before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee urging Congress to continue federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Krause, associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Yale School of...
Yale University School of Medicine today announced the appointment of Robert Udelsman as the school’s new chair of surgery. Udelsman was most recently the Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
Nearly 100 national leaders and practitioners will present new data and address the widening achievement gap among America’s public school students during the Yale Child Study Center’s School Development Program Summer Policy Institute, taking place July...
Like drug and alcohol abuse, pathological gambling should be viewed as a chronic medical condition, Yale researchers assert in an article published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “Pathological gambling...
“Children’s Health and Learning: What Educators Need to Know” will be the topic addressed by former Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders and a group of teachers, principals, program directors and policy makers at a Yale University-...
Yale researchers and their collaborators have found that high-risk behaviors such as smoking, physical fighting, alcohol use and sexual activity are associated with increased risk of suicidal attempts among adolescents. The findings have potentially...
To help improve treatment for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more serious premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), researchers at Yale are examining the body’s emotional and physiological responses across the menstrual cycle. “We are trying to...