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...
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded the Yale Child Study Center a $25,000 grant for evaluation of the “Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service” (IICAPS). IICAPS was developed at Yale in 1995 as a model of home-based...
World-renowned neuroscientist Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, professor of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, died on July 31 at age 66. “Pat Goldman-Rakic was one of the most distinguished...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that a professorship has been created at the Yale School of Medicine in honor of Dr. Donald J. Cohen, who was a pioneer in child psychiatry and served as director of the Yale Child Study Center...
Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., M.D., the David Paige Smith Professor emeritus and former deputy dean at the Yale School of Medicine died at age 75 in West Falmouth, Mass. on July 8. Donaldson and Yale colleagues Kathleen Lundgren and Howard Spiro recently...