Yale researchers have revealed how a kind of bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease can navigate its own course within a human cell by injecting a protein that can steer host cell membranes. Legionnaire’s disease is a severe pneumonia resulting...
The treatment of pressure ulcers and other chronic wounds is about to be revolutionized with the founding of the Program for the Advancement of Chronic Wound Care at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN). The YSN Program, announced on February 20 and planned...
Taking cocaine during pregnancy causes possibly permanent changes in an area of the brain that governs short term memory — leading to symptoms that are very much like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Yale researchers have found in two recent...
“The Tuskegee Syphilis Experience and the Implication for Participation in Making Health Policy,” is the title of a talk to be given by Mary Starke Harper on Monday, February 18 at 4:30 p.m. at Yale School of Nursing, 100 Church Street South. The talk...
Yale University and the New Haven Free Public Library recently received a $43,885 grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to establish a central New Haven Consumer Health Information Center at the Free Public Library. This collaborative...
Taking cocaine impairs the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain responsible for self control and decision making, and the effects persist long after the cocaine use stops, a behavioral study by a Yale researcher and collaborator has found. “It’s...
The Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale will host an art exhibition titled “Tikkun Ha’Olam: Meditations in Blue,” paintings by Mindy Weisel, in memory of Dr. Donald Cohen, former director of Yale’s Child Study Center and the Sterling Professor...
Renowned renal physiologist Robert W. Berliner, M.D., emeritus professor of cellular and molecular physiology and a former Dean of Yale School of Medicine, died on February 5 at age 86. Berliner made major contributions to the foundations of modern...
A Yale researcher has received a $1.4 million grant to study a neurotransmitter whose loss in the brain is believed responsible for narcolepsy, an often misunderstood disease marked by an uncontrollable desire to sleep. “It’s profoundly debilitating,”...
A New York Magazine cover article titled “Surgery Without Scars…” has included nine surgeons in the Yale Medical Group on a list of the top 100 minimally invasive surgeons in the tri-state area. “We are pleased that nearly 10 percent of the top 100...