This article originally appeared on the Yale Medical Group website: www.yalemedicalgroup.org.Yale Medical Group (YMG) physicians are urging women not to change their breast cancer screening routines after a government task force reversed long accepted...
Yale Medical Group (YMG) and Yale Cancer Center (YCC) physicians are urging women not to change their breast cancer screening routines. Their recommendations come in the wake of a government task force report which reversed long accepted breast cancer...
When patients actively participate in choosing their medical treatments, they are less likely to opt for risky procedures, a Yale University study has found. The research appears in the December issue of Arthritis Care & Research.The 216 subjects of...
A new prognostic tool that can determine the risk of recurrence in melanoma patients has been developed by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The technology, based on five proteins expressed in melanoma tissue, can classify patients into a low-risk group...
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...
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 &...
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...
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....
Yale University Press published the “The Cartoons that Shook The World” by Professor Jytte Klausen in the fall of 2009. The scholarly work is the first comprehensive investigation of the controversy surrounding the 2005 publication of cartoons depicting...
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...