Rewarding drug users with vouchers that they exchange for food, clothing, or, as one did, a robe for singing in a church choir, was effective in keeping patients drug free and on a medication regimen, according to research at Yale University. The...
Researchers at Yale studying a rare inherited form of hypertension have discovered mutations in two different genes that can cause this disease, clearing the way for new medications to treat both the rare and common forms of high blood pressure. “This...
Yale researchers have shown for the first time that a component of the medicinal herb feverfew targets a protein called IkappaB Kinase and halts that protein’s role in the inflammation process. “The results pave the way for the development of novel anti...
A method called prospective surveillance, which studies unexplained illness and death due to possibly infectious causes, allowed for earlier detection of emerging and reemerging infections in 73 percent of cases, Yale researchers conclude in a new study...
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and tic disorders showed a 37 percent improvement when they took the medication guanfacine, an alternative to drugs like Ritalin, which can worsen tics, Yale researchers found in a new study...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have performed the first central nervous system transplantation to repair the myelin-forming cells in a woman with multiple sclerosis (MS). “The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether the procedure is...
Yale researcher Diane Krause testified today before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee urging Congress to continue federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Krause, associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Yale School of...
Yale University School of Medicine today announced the appointment of Robert Udelsman as the school’s new chair of surgery. Udelsman was most recently the Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
Nearly 100 national leaders and practitioners will present new data and address the widening achievement gap among America’s public school students during the Yale Child Study Center’s School Development Program Summer Policy Institute, taking place July...
Like drug and alcohol abuse, pathological gambling should be viewed as a chronic medical condition, Yale researchers assert in an article published in the July 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). “Pathological gambling...