When schools serve healthier, more nutritious food, students do not compensate by eating more unhealthy food at home, a new Yale University study has found. In addition, the study shows that this type of school-based obesity prevention does not lead to...
An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United States, Yale University researchers report.“...
Nancy Ruddle wins Lifetime Achievement Award for her groundbreaking scientific contributions Nancy H. Ruddle, professor emerita in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the School of Public Health, received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement...
President Richard C. Levin met today in Battell Chapel with Yale supervisors to outline the University’s strategic goals for the next five years. The supervisors gathering followed a series of meetings that the president and Provost Peter Salovey held in...
New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, an indication that they have received inadequate care for the...
Ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach, may be used to boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in a study published in a recent issue of the Journal of Neuroscience.Parkinson’s...
With World AIDS Day less than a week away, two new studies from Yale School of Medicine show that jail inmates, one of the highest risk groups for AIDS, are far more likely to be tested for HIV if given the opportunity in the first 24 hours of...
The world’s oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, this could quicken the...
The serious behavior problems that can occur in children with autism and related conditions can be reduced with a treatment plan that includes medication combined with a structured training program for parents, according to Yale University researchers and...
Yale College senior Geoffrey C. Shaw and recent Yale graduate Matthew L. Baum have both been named Rhodes Scholars for study at Oxford University next year.Baum, of Watertown, Massachusetts, graduated from Yale in May with a BS and MS in molecular,...