Whether or not a woman’s ovaries are removed during hysterectomy depends partly on where she lives and her surgeon’s experience, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. Removal of healthy ovaries-oophorectomy-is believed to be the most effective...
Yale scientists will initiate cutting edge women’s health research with new grants from the Ethel F. Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Program at Yale. This year’s recipients of Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Awards include six Yale faculty...
Herbert S. Chase, M.D., will become Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine in July 2000, Dean David Kessler has announced. Chase succeeds Robert H. Gifford, M.D., who has held the position since 1998. He was Associate Dean for...
Yale researchers have developed a new method for recording the electrical activities within living cells, which could lead to better treatment for diseases like Parkinson’s, and provide clues to how learning occurs. “This new technique offers the hope...
Prevention of bone loss caused by steroid treatments for such diseases as asthma and arthritis will be the topic of a conference given by the Yale School of Medicine. The conference will be held on Friday, Nov. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the New...
The Yale Band will present a tribute to retired musical director Keith Wilson at its concert on November 17 in Woolsey Hall. The concert, which begins at 8 p.m., is free and open to the public. Wilson was a teacher, administrator and musician whose...
The Glee Clubs of Yale and Harvard will hold their 100th combined concert in Woolsey Hall on November 19 at 8 p.m., the night before the Yale-Harvard football contest known at both schools as The Game. Hundreds of alumni of both choruses are expected to...
Award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind, designer of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, will meet with reporters to discuss his work on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. in the Main Gallery of Yale University’s Art and Architecture Building, 180 York St. Reporters...
The Academy of the Arts of Guild Hall will honor the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture with a lifetime achievement award later this month. Robert A.M. Stern will receive the Visual Arts Lifetime Achievement Award on Nov. 30 at the Plaza Hotel in...
In the largest genome project of its kind to date, Yale scientists have succeeded in fully characterizing the function of the yeast gene, furthering understanding of how human cells work. “While the human genome project so far has focused on the...