Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) will convene a Senate hearing at Fairfield University to address the public health threat posed by the West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses. Durland Fish, a Yale expert on insect-borne diseases, will be a...
A treatment for autistic children that was touted by the media and anxious parents as a wonder drug has been shown to have no effect, highlighting the need for controlled studies, according to a Yale psychiatrist. The drug secretin did no better at...
The answer to how RNA polymerase stays still and moves at the same time while beginning its job of copying DNA into RNA is, according to a Yale scientist: “scrunching.” Using x-ray crystallography, Professor Thomas Steitz, the Eugene Higgins Professor...
The Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) will host a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Master Class on minority health on January 17, 2000, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the school’s 100 Church Street South campus. The class will be open to undergraduates...
Karina Danvers, a Yale School of Nursing (YSN) community outreach worker who has AIDS, recently received a Commissioner’s AIDS Leadership Award from the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Danvers was cited for her volunteer work on a project to...
Yale researchers have received a $1.5 million grant to develop a computer system that will analyze cancer cells and compare them against thousands of other specimens. The grant awarded to the Center for Medical Informatics will be used to analyze two...
A new screening test that could significantly improve the detection of fetal Down syndrome will be tested in a national clinical trial by Yale researchers beginning in January. The modified urine pregnancy test, hyperglycosylated hCG (HhCG), was...
A Yale study reveals that B cells play a leading role in promoting the development of unique cells that serve as gatekeepers for disease in the gastrointestinal area. B cells once were thought to function mainly as sources of serum antibody and as...