In a study examining the impact of group versus individual prenatal care on birth weight and gestational age, researchers at Yale and Emory Universities found that group prenatal care was associated with significantly better weight gain for preterm...
Yale Provost Susan Hockfield announced Friday, November 7, 2003 that Pfizer Inc. will fund a graduate fellowship in neuroscience in honor of Patricia Goldman-Rakic, who died last July. Goldman-Rakic was Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology at the...
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Yale’s Child Study Center and Department of Computer Science have received a new grant from the Doris Duke Foundation to advance autism research. They are planning to use a humanoid robot as an interactive...
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics, will...
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale is among leading mental health experts who will be available to the media today between 3 and 4 p.m. to address women’s mental health. The press event takes place at...
Yale researchers have observed an increased number of neurons in the brains of patients with Tourette’s Syndrome (TS), a finding that could lead to deeper understanding of how the brain compensates for symptoms of TS. The results of the study will be...
The “Richard K. Gershon Symposium on Suppressor T Cells,” a day of presentations and discussions by nine of the most distinguished researchers in immunology, will be held on November 17 in the Anlyan Center Auditorium at Yale School of Medicine. Each...
Despite previous reports concluding that patients want full disclosure about their illness, many seriously ill older persons and caregivers may not be ready or able to receive information such as life expectancy, research at Yale shows. Published in the...
Christopher Wells, a senior at Yale College, has received a coveted Rhodes scholarship for study next year at the University of Oxford in England. Wells was one of 32 winners chosen from 963 applicants representing 366 colleges and universities. A...
Yale University, state and New Haven officials and Fuel Cell Energy, Inc. will dedicate Connecticut’s first high-efficiency Direct Fuel Cell power plant at Yale on Wednesday, December 3, at noon. Fuel cells are environmentally friendly, quiet and...