Overweight children who are stigmatized by peers and their parents and teachers sustain profound and potentially lasting harm, according to a paper by scientists from Yale and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa. “Weight-based discrimination is as...
In what is believed to be the first meeting of its kind, Yale University is convening nearly 40 experts on nutrition, obesity, and addiction tonight and Tuesday to discuss the controversial topic of food and addiction. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the...
Leading researchers in Switzerland, France, Mexico, and at Yale School of Medicine, are pooling efforts under a five-year, $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to pinpoint the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. Hypertension affects more than...
Kristaps Juris Keggi, M.D., an international pioneer in the field of joint replacement, has joined Yale School of Medicine as clinical professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.Keggi also will direct the newly created Joint Replacement Center at Yale-...
Mary Savoye-Desanti with a participant in the Bright Bodies Program. A family-based weight management program developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine was more effective at reducing weight, body...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology & Public Health recently traveled to Ethiopia to award healthcare managers and workers with a Yale certificate for completing a year-long program that featured extensive training and...
Rare, previously undetectable drug-resistant forms of HIV have been identified by Yale School of Medicine researcher Michael Kozal, M.D., using an innovative genome sequencing technology that quickly detects rare viral mutations. Kozal, associate...
Michael Snyder who mapped RNA transcripts, and binding sites for transcription factors and chromosomal proteins using DNA microarrays and ChIP-chip assays. An international research consortium today...
New Haven, Conn. — President Richard C. Levin announced that Yale University’s efforts to expand and strengthen its medical and scientific research programs will take a major leap forward with the acquisition of the Bayer HealthCare complex in West Haven...
Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at Yale Cancer Center, was presented with a Statesman Award by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) at their annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The award pays...