Dr. David B. Larson, president of the National Institute for Health Care Research (NIHR), will speak on Thursday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. His talk is titled “Is God Good for Your Health? What Does...
LYMErix* Becomes First Lyme Disease Vaccine on the Market New Haven, CT – LYMErix*, pioneered by Yale University researchers and manufactured by SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for...
A simple test of the ability to tell time and count change may provide a new approach to screening for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in older adults, according to a study in this week’s Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and an...
Dr. Thomas Zeltner, director general of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, will explain his country’s fourfold approach to reducing the problems associated with drug addiction on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at Public Health Grand Rounds. The talk is free...
Heart disease causes more deaths than any other disease in the United States, and hypertension is not far behind. Two noted research scientists – Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., of the Yale School of Medicine, and Christine E. Seidman, M.D., Harvard...
Yale and Cornell University biochemists have unveiled the three-dimensional chemical structure of a key protein that is the target of TNP-470, an experimental drug that shows promise for starving cancerous tumors. The discovery could help pharmaceutical...
Five Yale University researchers have been awarded $100,000-a-year, five-year grants from the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation, the foundation’s first awards through the Donaghue Investigator Program for Health-related...
In studies at Yale University School of Medicine, rhesus monkeys developed schizophrenia-like symptoms as a result of selective brain damage caused by X-rays during the critical early weeks of fetal development. The monkeys tested normal on a battery...
Shachar Tauber, M.D., recently traveled to Beijing, where he was Laser Education Ambassador to China at the Global Chinese Ophthalmology Congress. Tauber is director of Yale School of Medicine’s new Laser Vision Correction Service and medical...
Two Yale School of Medicine faculty members – Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., and Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D. – have been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM). Chosen for their major contributions to health and medicine, they will devote a...