Researchers at Yale Cancer Center working on an innovative treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) have received one of two grants from the Connecticut Department of Public Health resulting from Tobacco Master Settlement Funds that allocated...
The Adopt–A–Doc Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine has launched a pilot project called Building Medical Homes to promote the care and services pediatric patients receive. Funded in 2001 by the Community Foundation for...
Yale School of Medicine’s Pediatric Asthma Care Team will provide asthma screenings for the community at Dave McDermott Auto Group, 55 Main St., East Haven on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In honor of World Asthma Day (May 3), physicians and...
Gloria Steinem, an American journalist and leader in the women’s rights movement, and Roslyn Milstein Meyer, ‘71 B.A., ‘73 M.S., ‘77 Ph.D., a co–founder of the Leadership, Education and Athletic Partnership, will be honored April 21 by Women’s Health...
A possible link between lack of sleep (insomnia) and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue...
The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will host the 7th Annual AIDS Science Day on Friday, April 22 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St. CIRA–affiliated scientists from Yale, the Hispanic Health Council and The Institute...
Desir (l) and Xu (r) with dialysis machine they hope to make obsolete.(Full Size Image) Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven identified a novel human kidney protein called renalase that...
Long–acting injections of the drug naltrexone, combined with psychotherapy, significantly reduced heavy drinking in patients being treated for alcohol dependence, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a Yale School of...
Sensory deprivation causes changes in new cell size and excitability in the olfactory system, which governs the ability to smell, according to a study in Neuron by a Yale School of Medicine researcher. “This gives new insight into how stem cells in the...
MicroCT analysis of bone from mice with (M+/M+) and without (M-/M-) IRAK-M.(Full Size Image) Scientists at the Yale School of Medicine identified a molecule in osteoclasts, IRAK-M, that is a key regulator of bone mass. Osteoclasts are cells...