On Saturday, October 16, the Greater New Haven community is invited to join the physicians, staff, students and alumni of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) for festivities marking YSM’s 200th birthday.“Community Day” will take place from noon to 4pm on Cedar...
Despite growing evidence that developmental issues impact student learning, developmental sciences—which include the science of child and adolescent development and neuroscience—are given short shrift in educator preparation and school reform, according...
Two major Yale research projects are among twenty that have been awarded funding through the prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Projects (T-R01) program. According to NIH, the T-R01 program “encourages...
The physicians and staff of Yale Cancer Center will be holding two events during the first week of October, to launch “National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” Press and media, as well as members of the public, are invited to attend. Every October, major...
A ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially mark the opening of the state-of-the-art Yale Health Center will take place October 4 at 11 a.m. at 55 Lock St. Coffee and refreshments will be served at 10 a.m. and tours of the new facility will follow the ribbon-...
The cost of care for cancer patients who stopped hospice care was nearly five times higher than that for patients who remained with it, according to a study by the Yale School of Public Health and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Patients who stop hospice...
Yale University scientists have discovered how one protein plays a key role in repairing damage to chromosomes that can cause different types of cancer, they report in the September 26 online edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology....
A disproportionate number of HIV patients come from racially and economically disadvantaged groups. Now, a new research and education institute at Yale has received a $1.3 million grant to address a documented shortage of research scientists from this...
Students and teachers in Connecticut’s public schools have fewer unhealthy snack food options in their cafeterias, according to a study by Yale researchers just published in the Journal of School Health.Researchers from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy...
Yale Health Center, a full-service medical center for students, faculty, staff and their dependents, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year in a brand new light-filled building on 55 Lock St. All Yale Health Center departments are fully operational...