Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Differences based on race and sex in treatment patterns for hospitalized American heart attack patients have remained unchanged over an eight-year period, despite improvements in quality of heart attack care...
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Heart attack patients treated with primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) at hospitals after hours and on weekends wait longer to receive clot busters and other treatments and have a higher risk of death than...
Peter Rabinowitz, M.D. Yale School of Medicine has launched a state-of-the-art database funded in part by the National Library of Medicine, called the Canary Database, containing scientific evidence about how animal disease events can be an...
Researchers at the Emerging Infections Program (EIP) at Yale School of Medicine in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a Lyme disease prevention study in 21...
Among patients being treated with antipsychotic medication, including those who were taking the most generation of drugs, a new diagnoses of diabetes did not result in substantial changes in prescription, according to a a study at Yale School of Medicine....
To: Editors and ReportersIn light of the recent passing of Peter Jennings, it may be useful to your office to speak with the following expert at Yale School of Medicine on lung cancer. Dr. Frank Detterbeck, Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Associate...
A medication used to ease symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, also is helpful in treating people with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a pilot study at Yale School of Medicine.Although...
President Richard C. Levin has named Margaret Grey, a pediatric nurse and diabetes expert, as dean of the Yale School of Nursing effective September 1, 2005.Grey is the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Scholarly Affairs at the...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has named Derek Toomre, assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, the Bayer Fellow in Medicine and Management for 2005-2006. He’s also Assistant Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer...
Patients who are delirious during hospitalization one year later had 13 percent fewer days of survival during the following year when compared to patients without delirium, according to a study published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine....