Young, overweight women are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors and are at significantly higher risk for sexually transmitted infections than their more slender peers, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper is...
A study by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals that the illnesses and injuries that can restrict the activity of older adults or land them in the hospital are linked to worsening functional ability, especially among those who are physically frail...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that new disease pathways involving more than one cell type leads to Type 1 Gaucher disease, a rare genetic disorder in which fatty substances called glycosphingolipids accumulate in cells, resulting in...
Lowering levels of a key protein involved in regulating learning and memory—STtriatal-Enriched tyrosine Phosphatase (STEP)—reversed cognitive deficits in mice with Alzheimer’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the October 18 issue of...
Yale University researchers have found a gene that seems to be a key contributor to the onset of depression and is a promising target for a new class of antidepressants, they report Oct. 17 in the journal Nature Medicine.“This could be a primary cause, or...
Four Yale School of Medicine faculty members and one adjunct professor were among 65 people elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine.“Election of five faculty in one year attests to the...
Yale School of Medicine Professor Amy Justice, M.D., PhD, has been invited to the White House to give a presentation on HIV and aging. Justice’s appearance, as part of a larger meeting on the subject, will take place on October 27, between 8:30 A.M. and...
A team of Yale University scientists has engineered the cell wall of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, tricking it into incorporating foreign small molecules and embedding them within the cell wall.The finding, described online in the journal ACS...
The National Institutes of Health has established a Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Center at Yale with a four-year, $3.6 million grant. The center, one of three funded nationally, will help expand work to improve the care and outcomes of cardiovascular...
Dr. Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, who has long been a proponent of taxes on soda and other sugared beverages, is available to speak to press and media about New York City’s effort to prevent food stamps...