For the first time on a national scale, voters completing one essential fall ritual, casting their ballot, can simultaneously take part in another: getting vaccinated against the flu. Flu vaccination clinics around the country are being set up within—or...
Paul D. Cleary, the newly named Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, has devoted much of his career to understanding how to improve the quality of patient care.Cleary, who is the dean of the School of Public Health and director of the Center for...
Dr. Lloyd G. Cantley, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, is a noted nephrologist who focuses his research on the mechanisms of renal tubule formation and repair.By examining epithelial cell adhesion, migration and branching...
Dr. Bennett A. Shaywitz, the inaugural Charles and Helen Schwab Professor in Dyslexia and Learning Development, is chief of pediatric neurology, co-director of the newly established Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, and a noted leader in the...
Dr. Michael Simons, recently appointed the Robert W. Berliner Professor of Medicine, is a leader in the role of angiogenesis (the growth of new blood vessels) in cardiovascular diseases.Simons joined the Yale faculty earlier this fall as the new section...
Halting a medication that treats one ailment because it may worsen another is a treatment trade-off decision that elderly patients with multiple medical conditions would rather take part in, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a study...
Margaret Grey, dean of the Yale School of Nursing and the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing, was presented the “Outstanding Nurse Scientist Award” by The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, the research arm of the American Academy of...
Yale School of Medicine has received a two-year, $2.5 million contract from the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to boost the quality of physicians’ healthcare delivery, especially in the area of chronic asthma and childhood...
Our judgment of a person’s character can be influenced by something as simple as the warmth of the drink we hold in our hand.
In the October 24, 2008 issue of the journal Science, Yale University psychologists show that people judged others to be more...
How do we make moral decisions, pick friends and lovers, and develop empathy for the feelings of others? An international group of renowned scientists who study the behavior of mankind’s closest relatives will try to answer these and other fundamental...