Florence S. Wald, dean emerita of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and founder of hospice in the United States, died on Nov. 8 at her home in Branford. She was 91 years old.Wald, a member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and an American Academy of...
Dr. Franklin H. Epstein, a former Yale professor known worldwide for his accomplishments in nephrology, died on Nov. 5. He was 84 years old.A 1947 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, Epstein completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where...
Yale University is one of five recipients of a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance informatics research tools for neuroscientists around the world. The five-year grant administered by the University of California-San Diego...
A study to help nurses hone their heart-monitoring skills has received the largest grant in the history of the Yale School of Nursing — $3.9 million. The funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health will...
Widespread prejudice directed at obese children and adults is the theme of a special supplement to the November issue of Obesity. The supplement, devoted exclusively to bias and prejudice toward obese persons, and the emergence of new science on this...
Yale researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the often fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year and nearly killed Vice President-elect Joseph Biden two...
In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Yale have found that victims of political violence were much more likely to report abusing their female partners after immigrating to the United States For many U.S. immigrants,...
For the first time on a national scale, voters completing one essential fall ritual, casting their ballot, can simultaneously take part in another: getting vaccinated against the flu. Flu vaccination clinics around the country are being set up within—or...
Paul D. Cleary, the newly named Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, has devoted much of his career to understanding how to improve the quality of patient care.Cleary, who is the dean of the School of Public Health and director of the Center for...
Dr. Lloyd G. Cantley, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine, is a noted nephrologist who focuses his research on the mechanisms of renal tubule formation and repair.By examining epithelial cell adhesion, migration and branching...