Cary P. Gross When Medicare was expanded to cover screening for colorectal cancer, the percentage of patients diagnosed with the disease increased and the use of colonoscopy may have played a pivotal role,...
Miguel Coca-Prados Glaucoma researcher Miguel Coca-Prados, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Yale School of Medicine, recently completed a professorship at Pfizer’s Groton Laboratories as...
Robert Heimer For injection drug users, the most productive and cost-effective approach to managing the spread of HIV is expanding syringe exchange and drug treatment, as well as promoting antiretroviral...
Massage therapy is a safe and effective way to reduce pain and improve function in adults with osteoarthritis of the knee, researchers at the Yale Prevention Research Center and at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) report in...
Harvey Risch, M.D. Cancer gene mutations are found in about one percent of the total general population, occurring more frequently than previously thought, and may be associated with various types of...
Joan Steitz “Beyond Bias and Barriers: The National Academy of Sciences Report on Women in Academic Science and Engineering” will be the topic of a panel discussion to be presented by the Women Faculty...
Voluntary screening for HIV should be a routine part of the medical care of all adults, not just those at high risk, according to a study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine.The team reports in the December 5 Annals of Internal Medicine that...
The “godfather” of school reform James P. Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has won the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education.The prestigious award honors Comer’s commitment to...
Alan E. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Child Psychiatry, and Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, has been named President of the American Psychological Association (APA), the largest association of psychologists worldwide...
Thomas M. Gill, M.D. With a structured exercise program, inactive older people at high risk for becoming disabled can improve their physical functioning and reduce their likelihood of having difficulty...