Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr., M.D., professor of immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator died on April 12 at age 60 in New Haven after a long illness. Janeway was one of the leading...
A new study of low-carbohydrate diets published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association shows that carbohydrate content in a person’s diet is not associated with weight loss. “We found that calorie content and how long you’re on the...
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will hold a fundraising event today for the newly created “Creative Writing Award” from 6 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the New Haven Country Club, 160 Hartford Turnpike in New Haven. Distinguished Yale surgeon and noted...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) has chosen the Yale School of Medicine as one of four institutions that will train participants in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program for 10 years beginning in 2005. Yale has been an RWJ...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will co-sponsor a conference featuring experts from the United States and abroad discussing critical issues in HIV/AIDS. The conference, titled “Structural Inequality and HIV/AIDS...
Yale School of Medicine researchers today released laboratory based data identifying significant new signaling pathways for ovarian cancer and have found that drugs can be used to successfully alter signals to induce cancer cell death. The results were...
William Wallace Lumpkin Glenn, M.D., world-renowned pioneer of cardiovascular surgery, died on March 10 at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, New Hampshire at age 88. Using a pump made from parts of a child’s Erector set, Glenn and his...
Barry L. Zaret, M.D., chief of Yale cardiovascular medicine, has named Carl S. Feen chairman of the board for The Yale Cardiovascular Research Fund. “Feen’s lifelong commitment to service to others is now extending into health care, specifically...
The majority of low birth weight infants show improvements over time in verbal and IQ scores, Yale researchers report in the February 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. “These are among the first results to show that the...
Twenty percent of people with epilepsy will eventually develop seizures that are resistant to medication, even if they have experienced long periods with no seizures at all, according to a study led by a Yale researcher.
The large multi-center trial...