People with sleep-related breathing disorders, such as habitual snoring and sleep apnea, are at higher risk of suffering a stroke, according to a study by a Yale researcher published in the June issue of the journal Stroke. “Sleep-related breathing...
Women who breastfeed their children, particularly if the first child is breastfed for more than 13 months, have a reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study by a Yale researcher and published in the British Journal of Cancer. The study...
Foresight Inc., a Connecticut-based charitable foundation, has made a $1 million research gift to the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale School of Medicine to establish a center to study macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is...
Even if every patient who noticed they had a tick bite received prompt antibiotic treatment and if it were 100 percent effective in preventing Lyme disease, it would only prevent 20 percent of the total Lyme disease cases, Yale researcher Durland Fish...
Poor medical care may be key to explaining a substantial part of the high death rate among patients with mental disorders after myocardial infarction or heart attack, Yale researchers have found. Published in the June issue of Archives of General...
Yale researcher Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D., writing in the July 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), says that although antibiotic treatment is effective in preventing Lyme disease, the overall risk of Lyme disease in any individual is a...
The Child Development - Community Policing Program (CD-CP) at the Yale Child Study Center will mark its 10th anniversary by hosting a conference of its national representatives and collaborating agencies that have worked to improve the response to...
Yale Dean of Public Health Michael Merson, writing in this week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), says the limited number of success stories in stopping the spread of AIDS share a common characteristic - political leadership. “It is...
Yale University School of Medicine today announced the appointment of Joseph Schlessinger as the school’s new chair of Pharmacology. Schlessinger, most recently professor, chair of pharmacology and director of the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular...
African-Americans have a higher rate of dementia due to strokes and a lower prevalence of dementia stemming from Parkinson’s Disease than do Caucasians, according to a study by Yale researchers published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society...