Washington, D.C. suffers from the most devastating HIV epidemic in the United States, with 3 percent of the general population and 6 percent of prison inmates being infected. Now, researchers from Yale, along with colleagues from George Mason and Howard...
A new study by the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) finds that middle-aged women who reported frequent instances of discrimination had significantly higher levels of one of the most toxic forms of fat-visceral, invisible fat — making them more...
Yale School of Medicine has announced the launch of the Yale Program in Brain Tumor Research, established with a $12 million, multi-year gift from Turkish financier Mehmet Kutman, M.B.A. The donation was made by Kutman in honor of a close friend and...
After a brutal winter, many motorcycle enthusiasts will soon be dusting off their rides to take advantage of balmier weather, but they don’t have to brush off their helmets because Connecticut does not have a mandatory helmet law. According to a new study...
A new Yale University study looks at why there is such a big difference in the mortality rates among patients treated for heart attacks in hospitals across the country. The study appears in the March issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.Until now,...
Women who put on substantial weight in early adulthood were diagnosed with endometrial cancer at much younger ages than their peers who gained weight later in life, new research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The findings are published in...
It’s been 30 years since AIDS and its cause were identified. On Wednesday, March 23, which Governor Dannel Malloy has designated AIDS Science Day in Connecticut, Yale University will host a daylong conference on the HIV-AIDS epidemic and new research into...
At a time when the medical profession is suffering from severe shortages of primary care physicians and nurses, and with millions more Americans entering the system because of healthcare reform, the demand for physician associates is growing dramatically...
U.S. Representative Rob Andrews of New Jersey and Jacob Hacker, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale, will hold a discussion on Thursday, March 24 on the past and future of health care reform legislation in the U.S.Titled “One Year...