The New Haven Free Public Library and the Cushing Whitney Medical Library will announce tomorrow the opening of the New Haven Consumer Health Information Network at the Free Public Library in New Haven, which was created to address consumer health...
Not only are most states devoting little or none of the $246 billion tobacco settlement income to tobacco control programs, they also are failing to fund the programs from other sources, a study by a Yale researcher has found. “Because only a very small...
Virtually every stroke patient who was administered a clot-busting medication in clinical practice, and who was included in a study of such cases, was given the medication with deviations from recommended protocols, according to a journal article by a...
A pregnant woman is at higher risk of contracting toxoplasmosis, which can cause great harm to the fetus, from eating undercooked meat than from the family cat and its litter box, a Yale researcher says in a newly published research paper. “It is more...
Although it is well established that primary care doctors are on the front lines in identifying and treating behavioral and emotional problems in children, there is little federally funded research in this area, according to a study by a Yale researcher...
A Yale chemistry professor, Alanna Schepartz, has received a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to enrich undergraduate education in chemistry by creating courses that expose students to the excitement and creativity of...
In the first large national study on the topic, Yale researchers found lower rates of cardiac catheterization, a diagnostic procedure used to assess blood flow to the heart, in women after a heart attack are only found in cases where the appropriateness...
Yale University researchers have received a $3.4 million National Science Foundation grant to find a way of controlling plant diseases using the crops’ own infection-fighting mechanisms rather than pesticides. “Infectious plant diseases result in...
Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., will speak at Yale School of Medicine Wednesday, Aug. 28, from noon to 1 p.m. about a bill he is proposing to expand newborn screening. Dodd will give his address at Pediatric Grand Rounds, where presentations are made...
An international conference examining the ecological and health effects resulting from the use of chemical, biological and physical agents during the Vietnam War will take place at Yale University September 13-15, 2002. Titled “Yale Vietnam Conference...