Yale School of Medicine will celebrate the opening of 300 Cedar St., its newest research and education building, on May 2. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., will lead the celebration with a keynote address at 3:30 p.m...
When older patients followed a non-drug intervention strategy for preventing delirium, their rates of delirium were lowered by as much as 89 percent, Yale researchers report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. “It has been well-...
In light of current world events, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will host a public forum to address how religious diversity and tolerance affect health care in our community on April 24, at 5:30 p.m. in room 118, YSN, 100 Church St. South. David Shaheed...
A study by Yale researchers suggests that the atypical antipsychotic drug risperidone reduces tic symptoms in children and adults with Tourette syndrome (TS). “These results suggest that risperidone is safe and effective for short-term treatment of tics...
Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr., M.D., professor of immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator died on April 12 at age 60 in New Haven after a long illness. Janeway was one of the leading...
A new study of low-carbohydrate diets published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association shows that carbohydrate content in a person’s diet is not associated with weight loss. “We found that calorie content and how long you’re on the...
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will hold a fundraising event today for the newly created “Creative Writing Award” from 6 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the New Haven Country Club, 160 Hartford Turnpike in New Haven. Distinguished Yale surgeon and noted...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) has chosen the Yale School of Medicine as one of four institutions that will train participants in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program for 10 years beginning in 2005. Yale has been an RWJ...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will co-sponsor a conference featuring experts from the United States and abroad discussing critical issues in HIV/AIDS. The conference, titled “Structural Inequality and HIV/AIDS...
A study by Yale University researchers provides preliminary evidence that there may be more than twice as many genes in the human genome than previously predicted. Using an advanced genomic technique, researchers looked for all the genes on human...