Ali Sindi, M.D. and Allison Squires, R.N. Nurses in Iraq listed building new hospitals, English language training and creating more autonomy and respect for their profession as priorities in reconstructing a healthcare system in the war ravaged...
A single mutation in an ion channel gene can produce opposing effects on signaling within the nervous system depending on the nerve cells in which it operates, shedding light on the molecular basis for erythromelalgia, a debilitating neuropathic pain...
John Geibel, M.D. and Steven Hebert, M.D. Turning on a surface receptor in cells lining the intestinal wall can halt the often deadly diarrhea brought on by the bacteria V. cholera and E. coli, according to a Yale School of...
Marlene Schwartz Nearly half of the people responding to an online survey about obesity said they would give up a year of their life rather than be fat, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.The 4,000...
Nationally-known educators Jonathan Kozol and Edmund Gordon, professor emeritus of psychology at Yale University, will be the main speakers at a conference by the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry June 9.The 7th Annual Divisional Conference...
In conjunction with National Osteoporosis Month in May, Women’s Health Research at Yale is making available on its website a brochure “Understanding How Nutrition Affects Bone Health.”The brochure explains the relationship of calcium, vitamin D and...
Haskins Laboratories, an independent research institute in New Haven that collaborates with Yale University and other institutions around the world, has been awarded $3.4 million by the National Institutes of Health to continue the study of links between...
Thomas McGlashan, M.D. For young people who clearly seem to be developing early signs of schizophrenia, treatment with the antipsychotic drug olanzapine appears to lower or delay the rate of conversion to full-blown psychosis, according...
Yale School of Medicine faculty are pilot testing an anatomy course for medical students that teaches the students more in less time by focusing on how they think, reason and learn, according to a report published this month in Medical Teacher.Lawrence...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have new data showing chloride ions are critical to hearing in mammals, which builds on previous research showing a chemical used to keep barnacles off boats might disrupt the balance of these ions in ear cells.“Our...