Prions, infectious proteins associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease, were previously thought to accumulate mainly in the brain, but Yale and University of Zurich researchers report in Science that other organs can also...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation has named Raymond R. Russell, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine in the section of cardiology at Yale School of Medicine, the Bayer Fellow in Medicine and Management for 2004–05. In 2002, Bayer made a...
Marshall Edelson, M.D., professor emeritus of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, where he was a faculty member for more than 30 years, died January 16 at his home in Woodbridge, Conn. He was 76. Edelson, a noted psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, scholar,...
Yale University’s Student Activities Committee will host a Winter Arts Festival, January 21-23. Events are open to the public and many are free. A pass to attend all ticketed events is $8. Tickets for some events are $2 and $3. Tickets will be sold in...
Steven Sherwood, assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University, has won the 2005 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, given by the American Meteorological Society(AMS), the nation’s leading professional society for those in atmospheric and...
A Yale researcher studying the use of electrical stimulation to control brain excitability in patients with epilepsy has received one of the first New Therapy Grants Program awards from The Epilepsy Project. The researcher, Idil Cavus, M.D., assistant...
People who smoke often use New Year’s Day as a starting point to quit smoking. However, many people try to do so without help, which significantly reduces their chances of success. Researchers at the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (...
Smoking marijuana is associated with increased risk of many of the same symptoms as smoking cigarettes – chronic bronchitis, coughing on most days, phlegm production, shortness of breath, and wheezing, according to a Yale study published in the Journal of...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine and over 60 collaborating research sites received a $33 million grant from the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) to conduct a multi-center trial examining a novel approach for treating...
Prominent musicians from the New Haven and Yale communities will join together for a concert to support the people of the earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged areas of Southeast Asia and the Pacific on Friday, January 14, at 8 p.m., in Woolsey Hall, corner of...