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...
The Discovery Room, a Yale program designed to help students learn how to manage their own behavior, will be unveiled at Public School #28 in Paterson, New Jersey on January 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. “Children who develop well, learn well,” said James...
A Yale School of Medicine and Veteran’s Affairs Administration study finding that patients with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) have lower nighttime levels of bilirubin, a bile pigment found in the blood and known by ancient Greek physicians as a “...
Ruth Whittemore, M.D., a retired Yale pediatric cardiologist, who provided pre- and post-operative care for the baby who received the first “blue baby” operation, died on December 27, 2001 in Connecticut at age 84. A widely recognized pediatric...
Administrators, faculty, staff and students in public health at Yale will celebrate the life and words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public...
When schizophrenic patients quit smoking, some aspects of their cognitive function become impaired, according to a new study published this month by Yale researchers in the Journal Neuropsychopharmacology. The researchers found that cigarette smoking...
The Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a five-year, $1.5 million award from the Fogarty International Center to establish an HIV research and training collaboration with the University of Pretoria in South Africa....
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, is the new associate dean for faculty affairs at Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mazure’s training and experience, as well as her in-depth understanding of both the...
Contrary to previous Yale findings showing beneficial effects of acupuncture for treating cocaine addiction, a new large-scale study published in the January 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that acupuncture is not...
A celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Yale Hon. LLD. ‘64) will take place on the Yale campus beginning on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January 15, and continuing through a two-day festival on January 20-21. The first in the...