Two Yale School of Medicine researchers have been elected by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., to membership in the organization that recognizes major contributions to health and medicine and whose...
Yale School of Medicine faculty member and noted genetics researcher Tian Xu is the first recipient of a $100,000 Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance Rothberg Award for Courage in Research. An associate professor of genetics and assistant investigator with the...
Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have described the means by which many common bacteria that cause potentially fatal diseases-such as food poisoning, typhoid fever, plague and dysentery-infect other cells, raising hopes for the development of new...
The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine (EPH) presented its annual Community Recognition Award to Dominick Maldonado, the HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the New Haven Health Department, in recognition of his efforts to bring...
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., the Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and director emeritus of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale, whose work dramatically altered the conduct of clinical research and the training of...
Yale scientists have successfully immunized mice against West Nile virus, raising the possibility of developing a vaccine for humans against the potentially fatal, mosquito-borne infection. Although there have been about 10 virus-related deaths reported...
Despite many observational studies linking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and possibly stroke, Yale researchers have found in a new study that HRT does not reduce the risk of a second stroke or death in women...
Yale researchers have found that giving blood transfusions to anemic elderly heart attack patients significantly improves the survival rate for that group. “This is the first study to highlight the important link between anemia, blood transfusion and...
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, part of the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year, nearly $200,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention to investigate the benefits of a home-based exercise program for...
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, part of the Yale School of Medicine, will soon begin work on a study of complementary care for mild to moderate asthma. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the study is designed to...