The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Yale School of Medicine $23.4 million to study the interactive effects of stress and self-control on tobacco smoking, excessive drinking, and overeating, it was announced today.Yale was one of nine...
Donna Windish, M.D. A study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine shows that 75 percent of physicians in training surveyed do not understand the statistics they encounter in the medical literature,...
Osteoclasts deficient in CD200 are fewer and smaller than wild-types but appear otherwise normal (left panel) and resorb bone (white areas, right panel) Mice that do not make the protein CD200 have bigger...
Menachem Elimelech Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the...
A summer of learning and discovery will culminate with presentations Friday August 24 at 12:30 p.m. by 20 students participating in the fifth annual “Discovery to Cure” high school internship program at Yale School of Medicine, 315 Cedar Street, Room 110....
New Haven, Conn. — The risk of prostate cancer may be reduced by consuming more than one serving per week of broccoli, cauliflower, and other cruciferous vegetables, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers. A team led by Victoria Kirsh, formerly...
New Haven, Conn. — Group prenatal care can improve pregnancy outcomes in the area of reducing preterm births and increasing breastfeeding initiation, psychosocial function, and patient satisfaction, without incurring any additional costs over standard...
It is not just what’s in your genes, it’s how you turn them on that accounts for the difference between species — at least in yeast — according to a report by Yale researchers in this week’s issue of Science.“We’ve known for a while that the protein...
Chronically ill older persons frequently refuse medical and surgical interventions recommended by their physicians, according to a recent study by Yale School of Medicine researchers. The study suggests that physicians continue to recommend invasive or...
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Compared with their counterparts a decade ago, today’s heart attack patients are receiving emergency angioplasty or clot-busting drugs to re-open clogged arteries at a far greater...