“Children’s Health and Learning: What Educators Need to Know” will be the topic addressed by former Surgeon General of the United States, Joycelyn Elders and a group of teachers, principals, program directors and policy makers at a Yale University-...
Yale researchers and their collaborators have found that high-risk behaviors such as smoking, physical fighting, alcohol use and sexual activity are associated with increased risk of suicidal attempts among adolescents. The findings have potentially...
To help improve treatment for premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more serious premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), researchers at Yale are examining the body’s emotional and physiological responses across the menstrual cycle. “We are trying to...
Even if every patient who noticed they had a tick bite received prompt antibiotic treatment and if it were 100 percent effective in preventing Lyme disease, it would only prevent 20 percent of the total Lyme disease cases, Yale researcher Durland Fish...
Poor medical care may be key to explaining a substantial part of the high death rate among patients with mental disorders after myocardial infarction or heart attack, Yale researchers have found. Published in the June issue of Archives of General...
Yale researcher Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D., writing in the July 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), says that although antibiotic treatment is effective in preventing Lyme disease, the overall risk of Lyme disease in any individual is a...
The Child Development - Community Policing Program (CD-CP) at the Yale Child Study Center will mark its 10th anniversary by hosting a conference of its national representatives and collaborating agencies that have worked to improve the response to...
Yale University School of Medicine today announced the appointment of Joseph Schlessinger as the school’s new chair of Pharmacology. Schlessinger, most recently professor, chair of pharmacology and director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular...
A protein called Akt2 or Protein Kinase B plays an important role in maintaining glucose balance, possibly leading to a drug target for preventing Type-2 diabetes, Yale researchers report in a study published in the June 1 issue of Science. “When we...
Leptin, a hormone known for its hunger-blocking effect on the brain, operates in a more complex way than previously thought, researchers from Yale and The Vollum Institute find, possibly leading to development of drugs that can better interfere with...