In two studies, Yale researchers have demonstrated for the first time that two genes, Interleuken-13 (IL-13) and gamma-interferon, cause pulmonary emphysema. Using “transgenic” mice that were genetically engineered to express these genes in the adult...
Yale researchers have designed a cost-saving program that helps prevent older patients from declining physically and mentally while hospitalized. The problem of functional and mental decline is increasingly important since patients aged 65 and older...
Suzanne Bakken, professor of nursing and medical informatics at Columbia University, will speak at the Yale University School of Nursing on December 6, at noon, about “An Informatics Infrastructure for Evidence-based Practice.” Her work has focused on...
Thomas E. Golden, ‘51 B.E., ‘52 M.Eng., president of the Darien-based Thomas E. Golden Realty Co. and its affiliates, has endowed the Thomas E. Golden Professorship in Engineering at Yale University. President Richard Levin said the gift fills an...
The Management Training Institute, a unique collaboration between Yale University, the city of New Haven and local nonprofit organizations, will hold a graduation ceremony on Friday, December 8, 2000, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the President’s Room,...
“Doctor, Heal Thyself?”, the title of a new study led by a Yale researcher, suggests that many physicians seem to live by this motto, because they are unlikely to see a doctor on a regular basis. Approximately one in three physicians surveyed did not...
Slippery showers, loose throw rugs, obstructed pathways and other environmental hazards are not the leading cause of falls by the elderly living at home, a study by Yale researchers shows. “We found, surprisingly, no relationship between potential...
The Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will sponsor two free, public talks that explore current religious and political tensions in the Middle East. Gershom Gorenberg will speak about Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious fundamentalism in...
Physicians conducting needle biopsies with a higher gauge needle the size of a drinking straw and equipped with a vacuum suction device underestimated the severity of cancer in a breast in less than 10 percent of the cases, a study by Yale researchers...
The Visitor Center at Yale University, located at 149 Elm Street, will be taking photographs of children in front of a backdrop depicting the Tercentennial bulldog, Handsome Dan, on Saturday, November 25, from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. The free Polaroid photo...