President Richard C. Levin announced today the appointment of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dean Robert Alpern as dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Alpern, who will assume the deanship at Yale June 1, is the Ruth W. and Milton P....
In this issue of Science, researchers at Yale University and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto report that curcumin, a compound in the spice turmeric, corrects the defect of cystic fibrosis in mice. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating and...
The opening of the Jeffrey Modell Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies (PI) will be announced at a press conference Friday April 23 at 10:30 a.m. at The Anlyan Center, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar St. PI is an umbrella term for over 100 genetic...
A new study that will examine how physical activity changes risk factors for breast cancer has begun at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Yale Cancer Center. The Yale Exercise and Survivorship Study will...
Patients receiving care from for-profit hospices received a narrower range of hospice services than patients who received care from not-for-profit hospices, Yale researchers report. “Our results suggest that more understanding of for-profit motives on...
The fifth annual AIDS Science Day to highlight the HIV/AIDS research being conducted at Yale will take place on April 23 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Winslow Auditorium, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street. The event is...
Effective reading intervention given to reading disabled children at an early age can change the brain system that underlies skilled reading and improve reading fluency and comprehension, researchers at Yale report. “Our results indicate that neural...
Yale researchers have found that the brain can unconsciously differentiate between social stimuli (pictures of faces), and non-social stimuli (pictures of objects), using a primitive visual pathway that terminates in the amygdala. “These results...
Yale University will host a symposium, April 15-17, to explore the image-making processes through history and across cultural boundaries, comparing communication in ancient, medieval, and modern medicine in Eastern and Western medical cultures. Medicine...
Roger Longman, co-founder and managing partner of Windhover Information, Inc., will kick off the revived Biohaven Speaker Series with a talk titled “Trends in Pharma-Biotech Deal making” April 21 at 5 p.m. in the foyer and lecture hall of The Anlyan...