The resurgence of pertussis (whooping cough) among newborns and adults has spurred a study by Yale School of Medicine and Hospital of Saint Raphael that will gauge whether young mothers and other caregivers will accept the pertussis vaccine if it is...
A Yale School of Medicine study reveals that the high prevalence of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among injection drug users may be partly due to the resilience of the virus in certain types of syringes. The study, which could open new avenues in preventing...
Errors in the copying of genes during cell division can cause numerous diseases, including cancer. Yale School of Medicine scientists, however, have unraveled the secrets of a much more rare phenomenon with potential therapeutic implications – disease-...
West Nile virus tricks mosquitoes into producing a particular protein complex that allows it to survive and be transmitted, Yale researchers report in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Cell.This molecular survival mechanism helps explain how West Nile...
Nenad Sestan, associate professor of neurobiology at Yale, was at the White House on Tuesday, August 24 to call attention to innovative work funded by the $100 billion Recovery Act program to fund innovative and transformative research.Sestan, for...
Yale HEALTH Center has won a Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Innovation Prize for its commitment to improving patient care by implementing an electronic health record. This recognition comes as the facility begins a historic move this week from 17...
In a study that could revolutionize how millions of people are treated for painful gastric acid-related diseases, a team led by Yale School of Medicine researchers has shown that zinc salts offer rapid, prolonged suppression of gastric acid secretion....
Mutations in a single gene critical to the development of the human cerebral cortex can cause a host of brain deformities previously thought to be unrelated, Yale researchers report online August 22 in the journal Nature.The surprising findings describe...
To help combat rising melanoma rates, a volunteer team of Yale School of Medicine dermatologists representing the Women’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) will provide free skin cancer screenings for spectators at the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament in New Haven on...
Yale researchers have discovered how a novel anti-depressant can take effect in hours, rather than the weeks or months usually required for most drugs currently on the market. The findings, described in the August 20 issue of the journal Science, should...