Universities are in a unique position to draft licensing and patent strategies for development of life-saving medicines and technologies that benefit low-and middle-income countries, according to an editorial by faculty and students working at the Yale...
Although caregivers are often called upon to make decisions on behalf of seriously ill patients, Yale researchers have found that their decisions may not accurately reflect patients’ wishes. Patients are much more concerned about treatment outcomes -...
Yale researchers have found that as many as 22 kinds of cancers produce abnormal sugars that might help metastasize or spread the disease throughout the body, a discovery that may lead to new drug targets. The study, published in the September issue of...
International researchers, medical practitioners, policy makers and others who have been on the “frontlines” of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic will share their experiences in a workshop held Sept. 19 to 21 at Yale University....
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut has teamed up with faculty and staff in Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences to create a high school internship program that fosters interest in science...
Midlife postmenopausal women who received daily treatment with estrogen showed improved oral reading and verbal memory performance, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the September issue of the journal Menopause. “This is the first study to...
Andrew Revkin, environment reporter for The New York Times, will discuss, “The Daily Planet: Why the Media Have Trouble Covering the Biggest Story in the World – The World Itself” on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall at the...
The Yale School of Architecture is hosting a symposium October 24-26 on the relationship between psychoanalysis and architecture, a complex topic that has eluded multi-disciplined scrutiny. The symposium will gather architects, analysts and academics...
Esteemed Yale professor Vincent J. Scully Jr., one of the nation’s foremost architectural historians and critics, has been selected as the fourth annual recipient of the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionary Urban Development. Scully...
Poet Anthony Hecht, whose work has earned him a Pulitzer Prize and the Robert Frost Medal, will speak at a Master’s Tea and hold a reading at Calhoun College at Yale University on September 25 at 4:30 p.m. Anthony Hecht, whose first book of poems, “A...