The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences held its inaugural symposium on Oct. 16 at West Campus.The day-long event was a dual-pronged celebration: first, honoring the gift by the Sacklers that helped...
More than 200 people attended the Yale Stem Cell Center’s second annual Stem Cell Retreat held Oct. 23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.The retreat, which features reports on stem cell research from 49 Yale labs, has become so popular that registration had...
Yale internist Dr. Lisa Sanders makes no apologies for being a big fan of one not-always-realistic medical drama.She regularly tunes in to the award-winning FOX television series “House, M.D.,” which features Hugh Laurie as its title character, Dr....
Infants born to women who received influenza vaccine during pregnancy were hospitalized at a lower rate than infants born to unvaccinated mothers, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The team...
Two Yale School of Medicine physicians have been awarded a $4.1 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a new pharmacological treatment for newly released HIV-positive inmates with alcohol dependence who are...
Yale researchers have been awarded a $320,000 grant from The Kiev Foundation to study new ways to treat Williams Syndrome, a rare, thus far incurable chromosomal disorder that causes cardiovascular and connective tissue problems.Williams Syndrome (WS)...
President Obama has declared the H1N1 outbreak a national emergency. Yale University is offering specialists in infectious diseases, emerging viruses, global health and epidemiology to speak on H1N1. They can address many aspects of this outbreak,...
The least healthy breakfast cereals are those most frequently and aggressively marketed directly to children as young as age two, finds a new study from Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The researchers’ evaluation of cereal...
Sex and gender are among the most important variables in understanding biology and behavior, and yet women were generally not included in clinical research trials until recent years, notes Professor Carolyn M. Mazure, who is being honored this month for...
Embryos that are most likely to result in a pregnancy are crucial to the success of in vitro fertilization (IVF) but are difficult to identify. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine, led by Emre Seli, M.D., are developing a fast, non-invasive test to...