It has been 12 years, since the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) issued its first “Clinical Practice Guideline –Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.”Yale psychiatrist Stephanie O’Malley played a key role in developing the 2008 guidelines scheduled to be...
Ronald J. Vender, M.D., a nationally recognized gastroenterologist, has been named chief medical officer (CMO) of the Yale Medical Group (YMG), the physician practice of Yale University faculty. He has also been named associate dean for clinical affairs...
Aydin Arici Women with fibroids and endometriosis facing the possibility of hysterectomy may now choose less invasive treatment options to preserve fertility, according to Yale professor Aydin Arici, M.D.,...
Women under the age of 55 who have suffered a heart attack did not quickly seek treatment for a variety of reasons, including their uncertainty about whether non-traditional symptoms such as fatigue, indigestion, and shoulder and neck pain actually signal...
Drug users can be taught to identify and quickly respond to overdoses of heroin or other opioids as effectively as medical experts, a Yale University study suggests.The study supports efforts of some drug counselors, physicians and public health experts...
Tesheia Johnson Home of many of the world’s breakthrough medical innovations, Yale School of Medicine is celebrating the volunteers that make medical advances possible with Volunteer Appreciation Day,...
Cancer researchers and physicians have warned of the link between unprotected sun exposure and the development of skin cancer for decades, but experts from Yale Cancer Center warn that recent publicity about a new study linking a decreased risk of breast...
Cells on their way to forming bone also produce an estrogen-like substance that mimics the naturally occurring female sex hormone estradiol, investigators at the Yale School of Medicine reported Monday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the...
Acute kidney injury (AKI), a common complication of cardiac surgery during hospitalization, is linked to increased and prolonged risk of death in heart attack patients who have been discharged from the hospital, according to a study published in Archives...
In response to a Lancet Journal letter suggesting that obese people are significantly contributing to world oil demands and global food scarcity, Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, cautioned that...