Retroviruses such as HIV that are already within cells are much more easily transmitted when they are next to uninfected cells than if they are floating free in the bloodstream. “Cell-to-cell transmission is a thousand times more efficient, which is why...
As part of its continuing engagement in global health issues, Yale University’s Global Health Leadership Institute is partnering with Tsinghua University to launch a four-year leadership development program in healthcare management for women in China. The...
Five Yale School of Medicine investigators have received new Pilot Project Program grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale. They will study a variety of women’s health areas and gender differences that affect disease and behavior. The research is...
In a major advance in obesity and diabetes research, Yale School of Medicine scientists have found that reducing levels of a key enzyme in the brain decreased appetites and increased energy levels. Reductions in the levels of the enzyme...
Physician-scientist David A. Hafler, MD, a leader in the effort to better understand the molecular basis of multiple sclerosis (MS), has been named chief and chair of neurology at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM). His...
While the quality of medical care available in the United States is the best in the world, says otolaryngologist Dr. Keat Jin Lee of the Yale School of Medicine, the system that delivers that healthcare is unacceptably expensive, disjointed and wasteful....
Ami Klin, the newly designated Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, is a developmental psychologist who is a world-renowned expert on severe developmental disorders, particularly autism and related conditions.Klin is the director of the...
Eighteen years after its creation, the Section of Emergency Medicine has been elevated to full departmental status within the Yale School of Medicine. Formerly part of the Department of Surgery, Emergency Medicine now stands on its own at Yale, a...
In research that could lead the way to development of stronger vaccines and better therapy against tumors and autoimmune diseases, a team of researchers from Yale School of Medicine has shown how blocking a protein that controls cellular growth and death...
In a change that more accurately defines the prognosis for patients with lung cancer, experts in the disease have devised a new, more scientific system for classifying a patient’s lung cancer stages. The new system and its implications for cancer...