Terri R. Fried, M.D., associate professor of medicine/geriatrics will be honored with the “Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award” at the annual meeting of the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) May 17-21, 2004. The award is...
Eight members of the Yale University faculty have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), the oldest and most illustrious learned society in the United States. The newly elected Fellows are Richard H. Brodhead, Donald Max...
A clinical study comparing three treatments of type 2 diabetes in children and teens has begun at Yale and 11 other medical centers and their affiliated sites around the country. The TODAY (Treatment Options for type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and...
Sharon K. Inouye, M.D., director of the Yale K12 Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Award Program, has announced four award recipients for 2004 and 2005. Recipients include Karen Dorsey, M.D., postdoctoral fellow, pediatrics (hematology-oncology), Nina...
President Richard C. Levin announced today the appointment of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dean Robert Alpern as dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Alpern, who will assume the deanship at Yale June 1, is the Ruth W. and Milton P....
In this issue of Science, researchers at Yale University and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto report that curcumin, a compound in the spice turmeric, corrects the defect of cystic fibrosis in mice. Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating and...
The opening of the Jeffrey Modell Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies (PI) will be announced at a press conference Friday April 23 at 10:30 a.m. at The Anlyan Center, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar St. PI is an umbrella term for over 100 genetic...
A new study that will examine how physical activity changes risk factors for breast cancer has begun at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Yale Cancer Center. The Yale Exercise and Survivorship Study will...
Patients receiving care from for-profit hospices received a narrower range of hospice services than patients who received care from not-for-profit hospices, Yale researchers report. “Our results suggest that more understanding of for-profit motives on...
The fifth annual AIDS Science Day to highlight the HIV/AIDS research being conducted at Yale will take place on April 23 from 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Winslow Auditorium, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street. The event is...