Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that a professorship has been created at the Yale School of Medicine in honor of Dr. Donald J. Cohen, who was a pioneer in child psychiatry and served as director of the Yale Child Study Center...
Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., M.D., the David Paige Smith Professor emeritus and former deputy dean at the Yale School of Medicine died at age 75 in West Falmouth, Mass. on July 8. Donaldson and Yale colleagues Kathleen Lundgren and Howard Spiro recently...
Eye black grease, a combination of beeswax and pigment used by many athletes to combat sun glare, provides better contrast sensitivity than anti-glare stickers, Yale researchers have found. “Eye black grease appears to be more than just psychological...
The W.M. Keck Foundation, a leading supporter of high impact medical research, science and engineering, has named Kevin White, an assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine, one of five grant recipients under its Young Scholars in Medical...
A Yale researcher who invented a test to determine whether a woman’s endometrium (uterine lining) is healthy and ready for embryo implantation has identified two new biochemical markers that improve assessment of the endometrium. The endometrial...
Yale researcher M. Marc Abreu, M.D., has identified an area of the brain he calls the brain temperature tunnel, which transmits brain temperature to an area of skin and has the potential to prevent death from heat stroke and hypothermia, and detect...
Yale Obstetrics and Gynecology will open a new Maternal-Fetal Medicine center on Long Wharf July 14, and a new Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility center on August 11. “Creating our new center on Long Wharf is a direct response to our patients...
In a national study of diabetic patients hospitalized with heart failure, researchers from Yale University and Denver Health Medical Center found that more than a quarter are treated with diabetes medications not considered safe by the United States Food...
Yale researchers have, for the first time, identified two types of reading disability: a primarily inherent type with higher cognitive ability (poor readers who compensate for disability), and a more environmentally influenced type with lower cognitive...
President Richard C. Levin today named Dr. Dennis D. Spencer, the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neurosurgery and Chair of Neurosurgery, as acting dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Spencer, who has an international reputation in the surgical...