Acute kidney injury (AKI), a common complication of cardiac surgery during hospitalization, is linked to increased and prolonged risk of death in heart attack patients who have been discharged from the hospital, according to a study published in Archives...
In response to a Lancet Journal letter suggesting that obese people are significantly contributing to world oil demands and global food scarcity, Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, cautioned that...
Yale University researchers have determined how a key component of many vaccines activates an immune system response, a finding that opens up promising new avenues of research on better ways to prevent infections. A team of scientists led by Stephanie C....
Yale University brain cancer experts are available to comment on treatments for malignant gliomas, the type of brain cancer Sen. Edward Kennedy has been diagnosed with.They include: W. Mark Saltzman, the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and...
Yale University’s Christine Jacobs-Wagner has been designated an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a non-profit medical research organization that is one of the nation’s largest philanthropies.Jacobs-Wagner, the Maxine...
Today Pasko Rakic, professor of neurobiology and neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, was named one of the inaugural recipients of the Kavli Prizes, for his key role in changing our understanding of the cerebral cortex, the seat of human...
Drug abusers who used a computer-assisted training program in addition to receiving traditional counseling stayed abstinent significantly longer than those who received counseling alone, a Yale University study has found. The findings were reported in the...
Blocking a common immune system response cleared up plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and enabled treated mice to recover some lost memory, Yale University researchers report Friday in the journal Nature Medicine.Researchers hope the new...
Yale University announced today the appointment of James E. Rothman, one of the world’s leading cell biologists, as chair of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology. Additionally, Rothman will launch the Center for High-Throughput Cell...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...