Serap Aksoy By sequencing the genome of the symbiotic bacterium Sodalis, which lives off the major disease-transmitting insect, the tsetse fly, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have come a step closer to understanding how microbial...
The langerhans cells are marked in red and another cell type are in green. Wild-type mice are on the bottom and have both the red and green cells. Then transgenic mice are on the top and still have the green cells but the red cells are...
Roberto Groszmann, M.D Beta blockers are not effective in preventing development of varices—veins in the esophagus that can rupture and bleed—as a consequence of cirrhosis, according to a recent study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in...
The rates of chronic disability in older Americans has been substantially overestimated by about forty percent, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the December 12 Archives of Internal Medicine.“Our projections yielded about two million fewer...
Durland Fish The link between global climate change and emerging disease threats will be addressed at the Forum on Climate and Disease on December 9 and 10 at Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies...
Saralyn Mark, M.D., senior medical advisor in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and an expert on women’s health and heart disease, will speak in New Haven December 13, 2005.The talk, titled “Women’s Health: The Impact of Sex on Heart...
Godfrey Pearlson The National Institute of Mental Health has granted a MERIT award to Godfrey Pearlson, M.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, for his research on structural and functional brain...
Cary Gross, M.D. Racial minorities participate in health research studies at the same rate as whites when they meet the study criteria and when they are informed about the opportunity to enroll in the study, according to an article by...
Nora Groce Yale public health researcher Nora Groce chaired the Thematic Group on Violence against Disabled Children convened by UNICEF at the United Nations (UN), which has made recommendations for ending violence against disabled children in...
Kim Blankenship There may be a relationship between incarceration and race disparities in American HIV rates, Yale researchers report in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. Led by Kim Blankenship, associate research...