Stephen Fleck, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry and in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, died on December 19 at age 90. Fleck and his principal co-investigator, Theodore Lidz, worked from the late...
Senior hospital managers influence efforts to improve quality of care, a Yale study reports in the current issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. The study indicates that the culture of a hospital, as fostered by the hospital managers, may...
Financial ties among industry, scientific investigators and academic institutions can influence research outcomes, Yale researchers have found in a comprehensive study of financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research. “Our findings confirm...
Regular exercise, such as brisk walking, reduces total and intra-abdominal body fat among overweight and obese postmenopausal women, a study by a Yale researcher has found. “Previously sedentary postmenopausal women who exercised for more than 195...
Yale researchers have developed a new technique for producing artificial skin that is likely to improve the reliability of overall skin graft performance, especially in recipients with impaired blood vessel development such as diabetics and the elderly...
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale announces the following week of events to commemorate World AIDS Day: Monday, Dec. 1Topic: “AIDS in China: Lessons Learned” Speaker: Wan Yanhai, Yale World Fellow, Chinese AIDS Activist...
Yale scientists, using a computational approach, have found approximately 10,000 gene-like sequences or ‘pseudogenes’ in the human genome. Their work is reported in the current issue of Genome Research. Pseudogenes are DNA sequences that have high...
Despite previous reports concluding that patients want full disclosure about their illness, many seriously ill older persons and caregivers may not be ready or able to receive information such as life expectancy, research at Yale shows. Published in the...
Children with severe asthma are particularly vulnerable to ozone in air pollution even at levels below Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, Yale researchers report in the October 8 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association....
Pregnant women with asthma can limit newborn complications if they actively manage their asthma with Beta2 agonists, commonly known as bronchodilaters, Yale researchers report in the October issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Principal Investigator,...