The decision by Olympic officials to discontinue, on a trial basis, gender testing at the summer games in Sydney, Australia, was long in coming, a Yale physician says. “In reality, gender verification tests are difficult, expensive, and potentially...
Researchers at Yale and the University of Connecticut (UConn) will study clinician/patient relationships under a new $2.8 million initiative funded by the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. The partnership, based at the...
Oxford, Princeton, Stanford and Yale universities announced today that they would each provide $3 million to launch their “distance learning” venture to provide on-line courses in the arts and sciences to their combined 500,000 alumni. Herbert M....
Yale University is joining with a Stanford University start up company, SKOLAR, in creating an Internet database and search system that will enable nurses across the globe to get instant expert information on patient care. The new venture, SKOLAR, RN is...
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will head an impressive panel on the state of entrepreneurship and economic development in New Haven’s high-tech sectors, hosted by the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES). Set for Wednesday night, September 27,...
Treadmill and other tests to determine exercise capacity and blood flow to the heart may not provide accurate information about a patient’s quality of life, a study by Yale researchers shows. These findings are important because these test results are...
Marjorie Funk, a professor at the Yale School of Nursing and expert on health care technology, has been elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing, the profession’s highest honor. Funk will be inducted formally at the organization’s...
Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library is acquiring historical records dating back to 1803 donated by Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, the oldest continuously-operating law firm in New York City. The materials, which will go to Sterling’s Manuscripts and...
Yale University will co-sponsor a “boot camp” to instruct new bioscience companies on growth strategies at a day-long event October 16. “Having a great idea is not enough,” said Alfred “Buz” Brown, director of the medical office of Yale University’s...
The director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Alan Leshner, will be the keynote speaker at a symposium at Yale Sept. 18 on innovative treatments for drug abuse. David Kessler, M.D., dean of Yale School of Medicine, and Benjamin Bunney, M....