New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, an indication that they have received inadequate care for the...
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music recently donated $500,000 to initiate an endowment fund for Oral History of American Music (OHAM), a special collection of the Yale University Library.Oral History of American Music (OHAM) is dedicated to the collection...
Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells or allowing genes to “jump” to different parts of the chromosome....
Continuing to regularly smoke or drink alcohol after a diagnosis of head and neck cancer increases a patient’s chance of dying, a Yale-led team of researchers has found. The study appears in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &...
The streets of New Haven are often crowded with throngs of Yale students, faculty and staff moving from Point A to Point B using various modes of transportation — including cars, motorcycles, buses, bicycles and their own two feet.Ensuring that these...
An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United States, Yale University researchers report.“...
Not many Yale seniors get to answer the ubiquitous question “So, what are you doing after graduation?” with “I’m working as an embedded journalist on an icebreaker oceanographic research vessel in the Arctic Ocean.” But that’s exactly what Alex Kain ‘09...
When schools serve healthier, more nutritious food, students do not compensate by eating more unhealthy food at home, a new Yale University study has found. In addition, the study shows that this type of school-based obesity prevention does not lead to...
Scientists are cataloguing an ever-growing list of ills caused by stress, a condition exacerbated by economic uncertainty and pressures of the holiday season. Yale University boasts world leaders in understanding stress, how it impacts our lives, and what...
Healthcare professionals using new time-saving strategies to coordinate care for patients having a heart attack saw dramatic improvement in “door-to-balloon” (D2B) times—the time from when a patient enters the hospital to the time blood flow is restored...