The job market for radiologists, the physicians who interpret X-ray, ultrasound and other types of imaging tests, is stronger than ever, a Yale study shows. “Radiology has continued to increase as a total percent of the health care economy with the...
Ehrlichiosis, a recently described disease that causes flu-like symptoms similar to Lyme disease, is now the second most common tick-transmitted ailment in southeastern Connecticut, a Yale study shows. Ehrlichiosis causes symptoms such as headache,...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded $11 million to Yale over five years to establish a clinical trials network aimed at testing, refining and disseminating drug addiction treatments into communities. Yale is one of five grant...
A Yale researcher studying the makeup of a gene responsible for a rare premature aging disease has been named recipient of The Paul Beeson Scholar Award. The American Federation for Aging Research made the faculty development award to Fuki Hisama,...
The Yale Faculty Practice, a multi-specialty academic medical practice comprised of over 650 clinical faculty members from the Yale School of Medicine, elected 10 physicians last month to serve on its Board of Governors. The elections were the first...
The fifth annual Domestic Violence Seminar will be held at The Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St. on March 27 and 28. “It’s important that the issue of domestic violence receives public attention,” said seminar co-chair Kathryn Finney. “...
Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, has been awarded a $2.4 million federal grant to expand work on her program for adolescents with diabetes, an intervention that she demonstrated to significantly improve control of the...
Working memory loss can be reversed using a short-term drug regimen that produces long-lasting effects, a Yale study has found. Results from this study led by Stacy Castner at Yale School of Medicine may ultimately lead to new treatment strategies for...
Barbara A. Smith, R.N., F.A.A.N., an expert on the effects of exercise on serious illness, will deliver the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture at the Yale University School of Nursing on March 23, at 4 p.m. Smith, the O’Koren Endowed Chair at the University of...
Yale University and the University of Connecticut have received $6 million in grants to study ways of reducing the spread of HIV among drug users and others with HIV infection. One study will recruit HIV positive drug users to counsel their fellow...