Two Yale faculty members have been named MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2009, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced. Mary Tinetti, M.D., the Gladys Phillips Crofoot Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health and...
Scientists have long known that calorie restriction increases longevity in animals but at an evolutionary cost – the animals become infertile. Yale University researchers report in the September 7 to 11 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Forty years ago, doctoral student Joel Rosenbaum asked this question: How are cilia, the tiny thread-like appendages protruding from most cells, formed from molecules in the interior of cells?The answer to this basic biology question asked by Rosenbaum,...
Many clinicians whose chronically or terminally ill patients might benefit from learning about hospice care are not having these discussions, according to recent findings by Yale School of Medicine researcher Terri Fried working with medical students John...
A new study led by a Yale School of Nursing researcher recommends changes in nursing schools and the work environment to reduce the number of novice nurses who opt to leave the profession.The article comes at a time when about 18% of newly licensed...
A video of the panel discussion on healthcare reform, featuring professor Jacob Hacker is now available. The discussion titled “Healthcare Reform: A Civil Discourse in a Turbulent Age,” covered the timely and critically important topic of overhauling the...
Presenting a united front in the war on obesity, diabetes and other nutrition-related disorders, seven of America’s leading public health and economics experts are urging passage of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). Their report, which suggests...
A tiny bit of genetic material with no previously known function may hold the key to stopping the spread of cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Sichuan University in Chengdu, China report in two papers in the September 7-11 issue of...
Scientists studying cognitive decline that accompanies aging have been interested in nicotinic receptors, part of a key neural pathway that not only enhances learning and memory skills but reinforces addictions as well. The loss of these receptors has...
The learning ability of mice and their sensitivity to cocaine are influenced by the shape of their brain cells, Yale University researchers report in the Sept. 7-13 issue of the journal of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.Researchers had...