Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that a professorship has been created at the Yale School of Medicine in honor of Dr. Donald J. Cohen, who was a pioneer in child psychiatry and served as director of the Yale Child Study Center...
Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., M.D., the David Paige Smith Professor emeritus and former deputy dean at the Yale School of Medicine died at age 75 in West Falmouth, Mass. on July 8. Donaldson and Yale colleagues Kathleen Lundgren and Howard Spiro recently...
Eye black grease, a combination of beeswax and pigment used by many athletes to combat sun glare, provides better contrast sensitivity than anti-glare stickers, Yale researchers have found. “Eye black grease appears to be more than just psychological...
The W.M. Keck Foundation, a leading supporter of high impact medical research, science and engineering, has named Kevin White, an assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine, one of five grant recipients under its Young Scholars in Medical...
A Yale researcher who invented a test to determine whether a woman’s endometrium (uterine lining) is healthy and ready for embryo implantation has identified two new biochemical markers that improve assessment of the endometrium. The endometrial...
Superintendents, principals, teachers and program staff that follow the Schools of the 21st Century (21C) program will gather at a Yale University sponsored national conference July 14-16 at the Omni-New Haven Hotel. Among the speakers will be David...
The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, announced today it has licensed a novel class of high-potency compounds from Yale University and the University of Washington that could result in...
A diuretic commonly used to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure may improve brain blood flow in cocaine addicts, according to a study by Yale researchers in the June issue of the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Chronic cocaine use is...
Yale researcher M. Marc Abreu, M.D., has identified an area of the brain he calls the brain temperature tunnel, which transmits brain temperature to an area of skin and has the potential to prevent death from heat stroke and hypothermia, and detect...
Yale Obstetrics and Gynecology will open a new Maternal-Fetal Medicine center on Long Wharf July 14, and a new Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility center on August 11. “Creating our new center on Long Wharf is a direct response to our patients...