Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
The Lupus Research Institute has granted a three-year, $300,000 Novel Research Award to support the work on the disease being done by Tarek Fahmy, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Joseph Craft, professor of medicine and immunobiology and...
Yale’s collaboration with other research centers will help determine the best way to treat diabetes in childrenThe University has been named co-chair of the Pediatric Diabetes Consortium (PDC), comprised of six leading clinical facilities. The PDC will be...
As anyone who has broken a bone knows, removing the cast can be one of the most stressful parts of the ordeal - especially for a child.Traditional oscillating saws are noisy, seem to take forever, and can get hot enough to potentially cause third-degree...
Two Yale postdoctoral scientists, Oscar R. Colegio and Kristina M. Herbert, were among 13 designated as Dam Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellows.The foundation provides funds to the nation’s most promising young cancer researchers so they can pursue...
Dr. Robert J. Alpern has been reappointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine, effective July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.Alpern, who came to Yale in 2004, has helped lead the medical school through a period...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
Robert Heimer, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Yale School of Public Health, will work and lecture in Russia with support from a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship.Designed to promote “mutual understanding between the...
The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, in partnership with the Fair Haven Community Health Center, has received the first Donaghue Program for Research Leadership grant from The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Foundation. The grant of...
In an address to the Italian Parliament in Rome on Jan. 12, Yale Fertility Center Director Dr. Pasquale Patrizio provided statistics showing that a 2004 Italian law that restricts in-vitro fertilization (IVF) practices is resulting in fewer pregnancies...