Treatment to lower systolic high blood pressure in older persons is associated with substantial reduction of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, Yale researchers report in the September 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. The...
Yale University is a key member of a nationwide group of medical centers awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a study of childhood absence (petit...
A genetic mutation related to a more aggressive form of breast cancer occurs four times more often in African American patients than their white counterparts, Yale researchers report in the August 9, 2004 online edition of the journal Cancer. In the...
A research team at Yale has found that blocking a kind of cell death called apoptosis in fibrotic diseases of the lung, also blocks the fibrosis, opening new ways of looking at treatment for lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Published in the...
On October 6, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the first of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl....
The Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale University will present the following lectures this fall: September 9 “Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’: The Shaping of a Self and Object World,” Harry Trosman, M.D., professor of...
The 1,312 members of the Yale College Class of 2008 will arrive on campus August 28 for orientation activities. This year’s class was chosen from the largest number of applicants Yale has ever had: 19,682 in all. That number represents an increase of...
Yale College news reporters will hold a week-long Summer Journalism Program for 30 local high school students who want to experience the life of a journalist and hone their news skills, August 22-28. The program aims to teach “the tricks of the trade”...
Yale University will host a conference to mark the 800th anniversary of the death of the renowned medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar and community leader Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), also known as Maimonides and the Rambam, on September 12....
Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on July 29, 2004 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, CT. Professor Feit was a pure mathematician whose contributions provided fundamental infrastructure...