Thirty years after it was given a name, the epidemic of AIDS and its related illnesses continues to kill millions of people around the world. But nowhere are the numbers as high today as in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular, the nation of South Africa...
In the latest of the “Pink” events marking October as National Breast Cancer Awareness month, members of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation put pink casts on patients last Friday. Here, 13-year old Jerrell Brodie...
Novelist Mark Helprin, whose work has been called “visionary” and “incandescent,” will speak about writing, and his own beginnings as a writer, at a Master’s Tea at Branford College, 80 High St., on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m.Co-sponsored by the Francis Fund and...
A study by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals that the illnesses and injuries that can restrict the activity of older adults or land them in the hospital are linked to worsening functional ability, especially among those who are physically frail...
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
More than 550 science journalists will be in New Haven Nov. 5-9 as Yale University and the Yale School of Medicine host ScienceWriters2010, the combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the...
Young, overweight women are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors and are at significantly higher risk for sexually transmitted infections than their more slender peers, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper is...
Yale University has received a $7.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Microsavings & Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII), a research effort designed to understand and communicate the development potential of...
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
Nationally known lung cancer expert and director of the Yale Cancer Center Thomas Lynch, M.D., is available to speak about just-released government findings that CT scans can lower mortality from lung cancer through earlier detection.The National Cancer...