Yale investigators have found that integrating primary medical care as part of mental health services for patients with serious mental illness results in significant improvements in their health status and access to medical care. “Patients with serious...
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yale researchers present an illustrative case and offer strategies for communication and caring for patients who have lost a loved one. Medical training offers little guidance to...
A Yale expert on juvenile diabetes is heading a national group that will be testing the most advanced blood sugar sensing technology for children with type 1 diabetes, research that hopefully may lead to the first artificial pancreas. The project...
The Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a five-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to add three new research cores and expand the functions of existing cores. “This new grant...
The Yale School of Medicine class of 2003 will present ticket receipts from their Second Year Show, an annual variety entertainment revue, to the Community Health Care Van (CHCV), a mobile Yale University program that provides free community health care...
In the largest and longest placebo-controlled treatment study of its kind, Yale researchers have found that the alcoholism drug naltrexone is not beneficial in treating alcoholism. Published in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the...
In an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a Yale School of Medicine faculty member reported that the vast majority of Yale medical students cried as a result of emotional encounters with patients during their first...
An abscess detected in the brain of a young woman was believed caused by an infection resulting from having her tongue pierced one month earlier, two Yale physicians have reported. This is believed to be the first report of a brain abscess associated...
In the first large national study on the topic, Yale researchers found male and female physicians were more likely to refer men than women for cardiac catheterization, a diagnostic procedure used to assess blood flow to the heart, after a heart attack...
There is no evidence that adult primates are able to create new neurons in the neocortex, the most sophisticated part of the brain, Yale researchers have found in a study published in the December 7 issue of Science. The results do not support widely...