In an effort to express gratitude to local public health professionals for leading the effort to protect the health of all Americans, November 21 has been declared Public Health Thank You Day.Public Health Thank You Day recognizes the crucial role of...
The Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at Yale presented new aging-related research awards to six Yale investigators.Joanne M. Foody, M.D., assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) has been awarded $96,892 in career development...
A report in Nature November 17 by Yale School of Medicine researchers emphasizes which cells are important in mounting an antibody response to invading microbes.Ruslan Medzhitov, professor in the Section of Immunobiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
David A. Fiellin, M.D. Yale School of Medicine researcher David A. Fiellin, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has received over $3 million in grants from The National Institutes of Health and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to advance...
Jennifer Prah Ruger Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor in the Global Health Division in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2005 Annual Labelle Lectureship in Health Services...
There will be a poetry reading at the Yale Physicians Building November 17 to celebrate the publication of the poetry anthology, “Caduceus,” which contains many poems written by physicians and health care providers.The reading will coincide with the 11th...
November 14, 2005To: Editors and Reporters Re: Possible new trial for Andrea Yates In light of a recent decision to either retry Andrea Yates, or consider a plea bargain, following the overturn of the conviction and life sentence for drowning her...
An advanced study launched at Yale School of Medicine is evaluating the role of statin therapy in patients with heart failure, one of the leading causes of hospitalization in people over age 65.While statins—drugs that inhibit cholesterol production in...
Joshua Copel, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine expert in first trimester risk assessment for Down syndrome is available to comment on the First and Second Trimester Evaluation of Risk (FASTER) trial, published November 10 in the New England Journal of...
Jeremy Gray Meditation is known to alter resting brain patterns, suggesting long lasting brain changes, but a new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows...