Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical...
With obesity reaching epidemic proportions in the United States, new research has found that an individual’s personal beliefs about the causes of weight problems are a reliable indicator of whether he or she will support public policies designed to combat...
In a review and analysis of tobacco and food industry practices, leading researchers from Yale University and the University of Michigan pinpoint similarities in strategies used across both industries.This research, which appears in the March issue of...
Nearly $7 million in combined grants have been awarded to a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health to examine the effects of exercise on two types of cancer unique to women.Melinda L. Irwin, Ph.D., associate professor in the division of Chronic...
Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
More prominent displays may be needed to help increase consumer awareness of nutritional information in fast food restaurants, according to an observational study from Yale University that appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health....
Scientists used to think most of the exchange of information between cells was conducted at the surface, where cell receptors receive signals from other cells. Now Yale researchers report in the March 20 issue of the journal Cell how a switching station...
Top Yale scientists will offer their views of the rapidly evolving world of stem cell research at StemConn 09, Connecticut’s International Stem Cell Research Symposium, March 23-24 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.The conference will feature experts who can...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced today that she would undergo chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. In a statement released by the court, the 76-year-old Ginsburg called the chemotherapy “precautionary” following surgery last month...