Yale University is a key member of a nationwide group of medical centers awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a study of childhood absence (petit...
A genetic mutation related to a more aggressive form of breast cancer occurs four times more often in African American patients than their white counterparts, Yale researchers report in the August 9, 2004 online edition of the journal Cancer. In the...
A research team at Yale has found that blocking a kind of cell death called apoptosis in fibrotic diseases of the lung, also blocks the fibrosis, opening new ways of looking at treatment for lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Published in the...
For the second year in a row, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded the Yale Child Study Center a $25,000 grant for evaluation of the “Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service” (IICAPS). IICAPS was developed at Yale in...
Research led by Anna Marie Pyle, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University reveals how a protein from Hepatitis C (HCV) unwinds RNA, potentially allowing it be copied. The work published in the journal Nature focuses on an...
A review article by Yale researchers reaffirms that the vast majority of people with cardiovascular disease can travel safely on airlines, provided they follow basic guidelines such as carrying an ample supply of medication or waiting two weeks to travel...
Yale University today announced that its Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a $2.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support HIV prevention research among high-risk populations in India. The...
Heart failure patients who undergo beta-blocker therapy tolerated the treatment well and had less heart failure deterioration than placebo drugs, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and other institutions report in the July 12 issue of Archives of...
Richard L. Edelson, M.D., Director of Yale Cancer Center, has announced the appointment of Ira Mellman as Scientific Director of the Center. Mellman is Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and Immunobiology, and Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at...
James and Marilyn Simons of The Simons Foundation awarded researchers of the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine $2.6 million to advance autism research and to establish a new laboratory for infants at risk for autism. The principal...