To combat the many fetal deaths that occur annually because the placenta is too small, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a method to measure the volume of the placenta, which provides nourishment to the fetus. Limits in current...
In post-colonial America, Lyme disease was isolated to a few islands along the Northeast coast and pockets of Wisconsin and Minnesota. But a new genetic analysis of the Lyme bacterium by Yale researchers shows that the tick-borne disease roared back after...
With the seasonal flu season approaching and uncertainty over whether swine flu will become more severe, new research published by Yale School of Public Health has found that more people are likely to avoid illness if vaccines are given out first to those...
With the passing of Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the nation has lost a tireless advocate for healthcare reform. Kennedy called it a “national disgrace that America is the only industrial nation in the world that refuses to guarantee healthcare...
In the first surgery of its kind in Connecticut, and among the first in New England, surgeons at Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital successfully removed the gallbladder of a 21-year-old woman through her vagina. This operation joins the...
To understand the molecular machinery of the human body, scientists have to be able to observe the structure of cellular proteins. This has been particularly challenging for those proteins embedded in cellular membranes. Now researchers from the Yale...
Faculty at Yale University have been awarded over 100 research grants totaling $36 million since February 2009, when the federal stimulus package was signed into law. Known as the American Recovery and Revitalization Act of 2009 (ARRA), the law aims to...
Injury from heavy and incorrectly carried school backpacks is more prevalent than most people realize. Every year, 30,000 children and adolescents wind up in a doctor’s office or emergency room complaining of back and shoulder pain. School backpacks are a...
More than 2,200 people have died in Connecticut from opioid overdoses in the past 11 years—an average of more than one every other day—according to a survey of state medical records by the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). The study results show that...
The learning ability of mice and their sensitivity to cocaine are influenced by the shape of their brain cells, Yale University researchers report in the Sept. 7-13 issue of the journal of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.Researchers had...