Unexplained illnesses and deaths occur relatively frequently in the United States, according to a new study by Yale researchers. The investigators used a method called prospective surveillance for unexplained deaths and critical illnesses due to...
The third annual AIDS Science Day to highlight the HIV/AIDS research being conducted at Yale, will take place on April 12 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Winslow Auditorium, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street. The event is co...
“The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child” (Little, Brown and Company) is a new book for parents that focuses on children’s growth in four key areas-physical, cognitive, emotional and social. The book was written by developmental...
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has given $100,000 toward the endowment fund for Women’s Health Research at Yale to help the program inform the community about landmark scientific studies and results. The grant, for The Community Fund...
President Richard C. Levin has named professor and former chair of psychology, Alan Kazdin, as the new director of the Yale Child Study Center. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and professor in the Yale Child Study Center, will begin...
Yale researchers have revealed how a kind of bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease can navigate its own course within a human cell by injecting a protein that can steer host cell membranes. Legionnaire’s disease is a severe pneumonia resulting...
Taking cocaine during pregnancy causes possibly permanent changes in an area of the brain that governs short term memory — leading to symptoms that are very much like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Yale researchers have found in two recent...
Renowned renal physiologist Robert W. Berliner, M.D., emeritus professor of cellular and molecular physiology and a former Dean of Yale School of Medicine, died on February 5 at age 86. Berliner made major contributions to the foundations of modern...
A New York Magazine cover article titled “Surgery Without Scars…” has included nine surgeons in the Yale Medical Group on a list of the top 100 minimally invasive surgeons in the tri-state area. “We are pleased that nearly 10 percent of the top 100...
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation today announced the election of Yale School of Medicine Dean David Kessler, M.D., to chair its Board of Directors. Kessler will lead the Foundation’s efforts to improve the lives of children worldwide...