Restricted activity-staying in bed for at least half a day or cutting down on activities because of an illness or injury-affects about 76 percent of elderly people, yet many do not seek medical attention, Yale researchers report in a new study. “...
Four years after starting a tutorial designed to improve medical students’ diagnostic and observational skills with artwork, Yale researchers have proven their theory in a new study published in the September 5 issue of the Journal of the American...
Homeless people with mental illness manage better if they live in cities and towns with high levels of social capital or community activism, Yale researchers report in the August issue of Health Services Research. “This is the first study to show that...
The “White Coat Ceremony,” at which newly enrolled students in Yale’s School of Medicine receive their traditional doctors’ coats, will be held on Yale’s Harkness Lawn today at 4:30 p.m. The deans of the individual medical school departments will put...
To help further innovative research efforts on cancers primarily or solely affecting women, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and its John A. and Edna M. DeLeon and Edith P. Rausch Funds have awarded a $75,000 grant to Women’s Health...
C. Norman Gillis, professor emeritus of anesthesiology and pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, died on August 16 at age 68 in Boston. Recognized nationally as a specialist in pulmonary vascular disease and pharmacology, Gillis published...
Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology in the Yale School of Medicine, and collaborators, are recipients of a Wellcome Trust and Burroughs Wellcome Fund research award to study diarrheal diseases....
Rewarding drug users with vouchers that they exchange for food, clothing, or, as one did, a robe for singing in a church choir, was effective in keeping patients drug free and on a medication regimen, according to research at Yale University. The...
Researchers at Yale studying a rare inherited form of hypertension have discovered mutations in two different genes that can cause this disease, clearing the way for new medications to treat both the rare and common forms of high blood pressure. “This...
Yale researchers have shown for the first time that a component of the medicinal herb feverfew targets a protein called IkappaB Kinase and halts that protein’s role in the inflammation process. “The results pave the way for the development of novel anti...