When schools serve healthier, more nutritious food, students do not compensate by eating more unhealthy food at home, a new Yale University study has found. In addition, the study shows that this type of school-based obesity prevention does not lead to...
An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United States, Yale University researchers report.“...
Nancy Ruddle wins Lifetime Achievement Award for her groundbreaking scientific contributions Nancy H. Ruddle, professor emerita in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the School of Public Health, received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement...
President Richard C. Levin met today in Battell Chapel with Yale supervisors to outline the University’s strategic goals for the next five years. The supervisors gathering followed a series of meetings that the president and Provost Peter Salovey held in...
New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, an indication that they have received inadequate care for the...