The grant–making arm within Women’s Health Research at Yale is funding new research studies for 2005 to reduce domestic violence, examine the link between estrogen and lung cancer, and investigate estrogen’s effects on memory. This granting structure,...
Shifting their hiring criteria after learning the gender of job applicants is one way that employers engage in sex discrimination despite laws and policies banning it, according to a study by Yale researchers published this month. “The question we wanted...
A Yale School of Medicine surgeon, Edward Uchio, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, section of urology, is a recipient of the 2005 Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award. Only 10 Jahnigen scholars’ awards were presented to geriatrics...
Theodore Holford, The Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Head of the Division of Biostatistics, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). The ASA is a scientific and educational society...
The more seniors watch television, the greater their negative images of aging may be, but maintaining a diary of viewing impressions increased their awareness of the negative stereotyping on television, researchers at Yale report in the Journal of Social...
Infants born prematurely and with hypoxia—inadequate oxygen to the blood—are able to recover some cells, volume and weight in the brain after oxygen supply is restored, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Experimental Neurology. Working with...
Cigarette smoking may improve attention and short–term memory in persons with schizophrenia by stimulating nicotine receptors in the brain, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the June issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered the breast cancer growth regulator sEGFR, which may be a useful tool in monitoring a patient’s responsiveness to treatment with the drug letrozole. Published in a recent issue of the American...
The tobacco industry’s campaign to attract new generations of smokers, particularly women, provides valuable insight for anti–smoking campaigns, according to a published study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of California at...
The basic economic theory that people work harder to avoid losing money than they do to make money is shared by monkeys, suggesting this trait has a long evolutionary history, according to a Yale University study under review by the Journal of Political...