Francis John Anscombe, an influential statistician who taught at Cambridge, Princeton and Yale universities, died in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 17 after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 83. A conscientious teacher and generous...
A panel discussion titled “Who Are We Now? Where Do We Go from Here?” will take place in Room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at 7 p.m. this Sunday, October 14. The panel, which will consist of a diverse cross-section of Yale undergraduates, is the...
Former United States Senator Gary Hart will speak at Yale on Tuesday, October 2, in a talk titled “Is Security Possible When War Becomes Crime?” Hart is co-chair with Warren B. Rudman of the Commission on National Security/21st Century. The talk will...
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have described the means by which many common bacteria that cause potentially fatal diseases-such as food poisoning, typhoid fever, plague and dysentery-infect other cells, raising hopes for the development of new...
The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine (EPH) presented its annual Community Recognition Award to Dominick Maldonado, the HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the New Haven Health Department, in recognition of his efforts to bring...
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., the Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and director emeritus of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale, whose work dramatically altered the conduct of clinical research and the training of...
Yale scientists have successfully immunized mice against West Nile virus, raising the possibility of developing a vaccine for humans against the potentially fatal, mosquito-borne infection. Although there have been about 10 virus-related deaths reported...
Despite many observational studies linking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and possibly stroke, Yale researchers have found in a new study that HRT does not reduce the risk of a second stroke or death in women...
Yale researchers have found that giving blood transfusions to anemic elderly heart attack patients significantly improves the survival rate for that group. “This is the first study to highlight the important link between anemia, blood transfusion and...
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, part of the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year, nearly $200,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to investigate the benefits of a home-based exercise program for...