The third annual Regatta for Research: Racing for Women’s Health will be held in Essex October 30-31 to benefit Women’s Health Research at Yale. A kick off reception will be held in Fairfield on Thursday, October 28 from 5:30-8:00 P.M. at Lenox...
On November 10, the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., with the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, will host the second of a series of four lectures on 100 years of psychoanalysis by renowned author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl...
Overactivity of protein kinase C (PKC), an enzyme that is implicated in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, markedly impairs higher brain functions in animals, according to a Yale study published Oct. 29 in Science. The research adds to mounting...
Designing physical activity programs and interventions geared to breast cancer survivors will increase well-being and may improve prognosis, Yale researchers report in a recent issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. “Despite the evidence...
Yale School of Medicine has received a $1.7 million grant to study whether a history of use of MDMA (ecstasy) and marijuana is associated with cognitive deficits in adolescents. The study, which will include 200 adolescent participants, also will...
Mice engineered without the Nogo-66 Receptor (NgR) grew new nerve fibers after spinal cord injury, pointing to this receptor as a target for development of a drug to promote fiber recovery, according to a Yale study published today in Neuron. The...
Yale will present the C-E.A. Winslow Medal to William H. Foege, M.D., Emeritus Presidential Distinguished Professor of International Health at the Emory School of Public Health, on October 28 at 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. Foege will...
Yale University is transferring 5,000 doses of flu vaccine to the City of New Haven to help it care for residents who are most in need of vaccination this flu season. “The current shortage of vaccine prompted Yale to reach out to its neighbors to help...
The Yale Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) has a new award of about $9.5 million to continue its studies through September 2009. The Yale Tobacco Center is one of seven research centers funded over the next five years by the National...
Estrogen treatment had less beneficial effect on memory in female mice that raced on running wheels and played with other toys than in mice raised in non-stimulating environments, according to a Yale study published this month. “We saw no beneficial...