When vaccinating children against varicella (chicken pox), researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found, two doses are better than one. In fact, the odds of developing chicken pox were 95 percent lower in children who had received two doses of the...
Children who receive antibiotics within the first six months of life are at a significantly increased risk of developing asthma and allergies by 6 years of age, even without a genetic predisposition, new research by the Yale School of Public Health...
Physicians from Yale University and other institutions assert that medical residents need far more rigorous training and medical schools need stronger infrastructure in order to adequately deal with the medical, behavioral, financial and social problems...
Heavy use of antibiotics has created a host of dangerous drug-resistant pathogens that endanger the health of millions of people. However, it has been unclear how quickly a ban on the overuse of an antibiotic would restore its usefulness.According to a...
The Yale Child Study Center has come a long way from the small room in the New Haven Dispensary where Arnold Gessell began studying children with mental retardation in 1911. One hundred years later, the Center is set to mark its birthday with a yearlong...
A new set of guidelines tout exercise, including the slow, controlled movements in martial arts like tai chi, as a way to prevent falls among older adults. Yale School of Medicine Professor Mary Tinetti, M.D., co-chaired a panel of experts who developed...
The food industry, through two of its major trade associations, the Food Marketing Institute and the Grocery Manufacturers of America, announced today a new front-of-package labeling system that they intend to use across a wide variety of food...
The potentially deadly bacterium Salmonella possesses a molecular machine that marshals the proteins it needs to hijack cellular mechanisms and infect millions worldwide.In a paper published Feb. 3 online in Science Express, Yale University researchers...
When the body can’t distinguish its right side from its left during development, a child can develop a condition called heterotaxy in which the heart is severely malformed, leading to congenital heart disease. To improve survival in these children,...
Researchers at Yale University and the University of Connecticut have discovered that one of the key genes in human embryonic stem cell development also enhances stem cell growth and survival — a significant finding made possible by funding from the state...