Yale researchers have identified two separate invasions in California of Aedes aegypti — known colloquially as “the yellow fever mosquito” because it can carry yellow fever, dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika, among other diseases.
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It is still common for infants to be placed in unsafe sleeping positions by their caregivers, report researchers from Yale and Boston University (BU). Fewer than half of infants are always placed on their backs for sleep, the recommended safe sleep...
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has awarded four of its Science & Technology Policy Fellowships, which place fellows with backgrounds in science or technology fields in yearlong roles in federal government agencies, to...
Yale’s Center for Health & Learning Games will establish a new lab, play4REAL, with a gift from Oculus, a Facebook-owned technology company specializing in Virtual Reality (VR) hardware and software products. The goal of this innovative lab is to...
While in the United States heart disease is the leading cause of death, in China it is stroke. People have speculated for years about why the Chinese are predisposed to stroke to a greater extent than heart disease. Some have believed that there is a...
Between 2002 and 2013 in the United States, nonstatin drug use increased by 124%, resulting in a 364% increase in nonstatin-associated expenditures, Yale researchers found. This study was published on Jan. 22, 2018 in the Journal of the American Heart...
Big data is getting bigger. By 2025, genomics will have surpassed astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube to become the largest data-generating enterprise by far. What began 65 years ago when Watson, Crick, and Franklin unlocked the double helix of DNA has become...
Over the next decade, about 247,000 young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are expected to enroll in universities, colleges, or technical/vocational schools. Because post-secondary education is expected to present new challenges to individuals...
Yale researchers have found that hospitals with higher emergency department visitation rates after hospital discharge had lower readmission rates among Medicare beneficiaries.
Arjun Venkatesh, M.D., Arjun Venkatesh, M.D., a 2016 Yale Center for Clinical...