Nine Yale School of Medicine researchers have been awarded research grants from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). Two of the Yale researchers – George R. Heninger, M.D., professor of psychiatry, and Robert H...
Long before the “Starr Report” and alleged presidential perjury were the topic of the day, Yale pediatric oncologist Dr. Diane Komp decided to explore the issue of lying: why people do it and whether lies are ever justified. Her just-published book...
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Institutes for Pharmaceutical Discovery in Branford, Conn., have discovered a possible new mechanism for the body to control its fat stores by inducing the growth of new blood vessels, which...
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Institutes for Pharmaceutical Discovery in Branford, Conn., have discovered a possible new mechanism for the body to control its fat stores by inducing the growth of new blood vessels, which...
U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., and Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will be featured speakers Sept. 18-20 at a special historical conference marking the centennial of the commercial introduction of...
A drug that lowers brain levels of the chemical glutamate – one of the neurotransmitters responsible for relaying messages between neurons – can reverse symptoms of a rat model of schizophrenia without apparent side effects, according to a Yale...
The human immune system, an elegant and intricate biological defense system unmatched in most life forms, may have evolved from a mobile piece of DNA that inserted itself into the mammalian genome more than 450 million years ago. A team of researchers...
David A. Kessler, M.D., J.D., dean of Yale University’s School of Medicine and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), has accepted an invitation from The Mayday Fund to serve as honorary chairman of its newly formed National...
Beta-blockers are not prescribed for many older patients who could benefit from their use after heart attacks, according to an article in the Aug. 19 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In fact, the study found that only...
Although resuscitation is often used with patients suffering from severe congestive heart failure, nearly one in four of those patients who were hospitalized said they did not wish to be resuscitated if their hearts stopped beating, according to a study...