Expanded HIV screening can increase patient life span, prevent the spread of the disease, and is cost effective, researchers at Yale, Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital report in the February 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (...
Stephanie O’Malley, professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Substance Abuse Research at Yale School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2004 Dan Anderson Research Award. The award is sponsored by the Butler Center for Research at the...
The varicella vaccine is almost 90 percent effective against chickenpox, but its impact on herpes zoster (shingles) is unknown and needs wider surveillance, Yale School of Medicine researchers write in today’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
On a recent trip to India, Yale President Richard C. Levin and a delegation of Yale officials formally opened a new office for Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) housed at YRG Care, a non–profit organization based in Chennai. The...
George A. Silver, M.D., emeritus professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine and former deputy assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), died January 7 at age 91 in Chevy...
A Yale researcher and expert in the practice of acupuncture is conducting a three–year study on the effectiveness of this ancient Chinese practice in reducing low back pain during pregnancy. The study is funded with a $400,000 grant from the National...
Adolescents who smoke show impairment of memory and other cognitive functions, according to a Yale study in Biological Psychiatry. More than 4.5 million teenagers smoke cigarettes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the...