Yale researchers will discuss advances in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness at Yale School of Medicine on Saturday, March 31 during Neuroscience 2001: The Neurobiology of Recovery. “The presentations are directed at a lay audience...
In a two-part study, researchers at Yale have found that 89 percent of women are willing to switch from gynecologists who do not support their decision to have fibroids treated using Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive treatment...
The Yale Faculty Practice has formally changed its name to the “Yale Medical Group,” after considering a variety of factors, including a change in the function, governance and purpose of the organization. “In the past several years, the faculty practice...
The latest advances in treatments for sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy and insomnia will be discussed at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Sleep Society on March 30-31 at the Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple St. The meeting is...
Researchers at Yale and Rockefeller Universities have found that an enzyme called Cdk5 regulates the action of dopamine, a chemical messenger associated with cocaine’s “rush” and with addiction to cocaine and other drugs. According to Jingshan Chen,...
State-of-the art lectures and presentations by distinguished speakers from both sides of the Atlantic will highlight a meeting between The Royal College of Surgeons of England and Yale Department of Surgery on March 14. The colloquium, which will take...
A Yale research team, in collaboration with scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine, have studied signal transduction-the communication system developed by cells-to further understand how hereditary blindness occurs. “Our results serve as a basis...
Research at Yale looking at the causes and treatment of auditory hallucinations or “voices” will continue with over $600,000 in combined funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the Donaghue Foundation and the Charles A. Dana...
In honor of his pioneering work in cancer pharmacology and research pertaining to drug development, Alan C. Sartorelli, The Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine, will receive the 14th Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award from the...
Siblings who are addicted to cocaine and opioids, among them morphine, codeine and heroin, are being recruited for Yale University-led studies to determine the locations of genes that increase risk for cocaine, opioid and tobacco addictions. The study...