On Saturday, March 13, 2010, Yale School of Medicine sent its second mission to Haiti. The focus this time was less on emergency trauma such as crush injuries, and more on the long term medical problems that continue to plague Haiti in the aftermath of...
Dr. Joseph E. Craft, newly named as the Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine, is an internationally recognized expert on the pathogenesis of systemic autoimmune diseases.He and his research team seek to define the mechanisms of loss of self-tolerance and...
When Yale physician Dr. David M. Walker (YC ‘96) arrived in Haiti three weeks after the earthquake as part of a medical relief team, he and his colleagues did not find scores of critically injured individuals needing life-saving care.What they did find...
For the first time, Yale researchers have identified common genetic variants that predispose lean individuals to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and insulin resistance. NAFLD is now the most common chronic liver disease in the U.S. and insulin...
Newly created brain cells lacking a critical receptor do not survive a long migration to join complex neural networks, a Yale University research team reports March 25 in the journal Neuron.Understanding this molecular mechanism involved in neurogenesis...
Hormone therapy seems to preserve the memories of women just entering menopause but is of little benefit to older women and leaves them at increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease and stroke, according to a research team at Yale University.A new...
Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, who has helped to craft policies that are the foundation of health care reform, can provide answers to many questions of interest to ordinary citizens. A seasoned commentator with significant media experience, Professor Hacker...
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
The Yale School of Medicine will host the 201st meeting of the Interurban Clinical Club, a group of physicians dedicated to improving health care in the United States, on Friday, March 26.Sir William Osler founded the group in 1905 in order to disseminate...
Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.Little is known about whether...