Yale University researchers can’t tell you where you left your car keys — but they can tell you why you can’t find them.A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows that the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have...
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health conducted an independent analysis of a multimillion-dollar program funded by the World Bank to improve maternal and child health in rural Indonesia.The study — led by Jennifer Prah Ruger, associate professor...
A Yale University-led team of scientists has found that cells that drive certain serious, chronic autoimmune diseases can be redirected into the small intestine — and controlled there — potentially neutralizing their propensity to trigger illness. The...
On April 26, Dr. Ketan Bulsara, using state-of-the-art technology, threaded a catheter less than one centimeter in width from the femoral artery in Norbert Tibeau’s thigh into an aneurysm in his brain. The aneurysm had grown to a diameter of two...
There are cultural difference not only in the way we smile, but also in how we can tell a fake smile from a real one, says Yale psychology professor Marianne LaFrance in an interview with healthzone.ca.Click here to read the interview.
Yale School of Medicine researchers have described for the first time the structure of a member in an enigmatic family of proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a crucial early step in understanding key mechanisms of the disease and designing drugs to...
Funding social services might be more effective in improving the health of a nation’s population than spending money on health services, according to a study by the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) published in the July issue of BMJ Quality...
Yale researchers have devised a novel way to trick cells into getting rid of problematic proteins, a method that could help pharmaceutical companies quickly identify promising targets for new drugs.“Our new approach offers great potential in overcoming a...