A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that exaggerated responses of the immune system explain why the elderly succumb to viral infections more readily than younger people. Published in the November 19 Cell Host & Microbe, the study bucks...
Yale is offering breast cancer experts from the Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven to speak on the controversial new guidelines on who should get mammograms, and the effectiveness of breast self-examination.They are: Lyndsay...
Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells, called photoreceptors, could hold the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November issue of Investigative...
Parker has no appetite even for his favorite food — strawberry ice cream cones — because his head and belly don’t feel well at all.After visits to many doctors, he finally goes into the city to meet Dr. Spott E. Dogg, who tells Parker and his mother some...
A consortium of six leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) today announced their endorsement of a far-reaching “Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable Dissemination of Medical...
In a study that sheds light on the inner workings of the immune system, a Yale-led team of researchers has revealed hidden details of how CD4+ T helper cells mobilize the body’s immune system to fight infection. The research appears in the November 9...
Do female combat veterans have more problems adjusting to civilian life than males? In one of the first studies of its kind, Women’s Health Research at Yale will launch a collaborative study to identify gender differences among returning soldiers.Of the...
Margaret Grey has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), effective July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.Grey, the Annie Goodrich Professor at YSN, has been at Yale since January of...
A symposium on “The Promise of Yale Psychiatry” will held on Friday, Nov. 13, to mark the installation of Dr. John H. Krystal as the sixth chair of the Department of Psychiatry.The event is co-sponsored by Yale’s psychiatry department and Yale-New Haven...