New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, an indication that they have received inadequate care for the...
President Richard C. Levin met today in Battell Chapel with Yale supervisors to outline the University’s strategic goals for the next five years. The supervisors gathering followed a series of meetings that the president and Provost Peter Salovey held in...
Nancy Ruddle wins Lifetime Achievement Award for her groundbreaking scientific contributions Nancy H. Ruddle, professor emerita in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the School of Public Health, received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement...
An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United States, Yale University researchers report.“...
When schools serve healthier, more nutritious food, students do not compensate by eating more unhealthy food at home, a new Yale University study has found. In addition, the study shows that this type of school-based obesity prevention does not lead to...
Scientists are cataloguing an ever-growing list of ills caused by stress, a condition exacerbated by economic uncertainty and pressures of the holiday season. Yale University boasts world leaders in understanding stress, how it impacts our lives, and what...
Yale University Press published the “The Cartoons that Shook The World” by Professor Jytte Klausen in the fall of 2009. The scholarly work is the first comprehensive investigation of the controversy surrounding the 2005 publication of cartoons depicting...
Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells or allowing genes to “jump” to different parts of the chromosome....
Healthcare professionals using new time-saving strategies to coordinate care for patients having a heart attack saw dramatic improvement in “door-to-balloon” (D2B) times—the time from when a patient enters the hospital to the time blood flow is restored...
Continuing to regularly smoke or drink alcohol after a diagnosis of head and neck cancer increases a patient’s chance of dying, a Yale-led team of researchers has found. The study appears in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &...