President Richard C. Levin announced today that David A. Kessler, the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will become dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, effective July 1, 1997. Dr. Kessler is a graduate of the Harvard...
Members of the print and electronic media are invited to attend a Yale community meeting at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 13, at which Yale President Richard C. Levin will announce a major appointment of interest to the Yale and New Haven-area...
Nobel laureate Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, will present a lecture as the Jonathan Edwards College, JE, Tetelman Fellow on Monday, March 3, at noon in the School of Medicine’s Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St....
Yale University biologist Craig M. Crews has discovered how a promising cancer medication, now in clinical trials, starves tumors by cutting off their blood supply. The discovery, for which Yale is seeking a patent, will enable pharmaceutical firms to...
Yale University and Innovir Laboratories Inc. of New York City recently announced they have been granted additional broad patent rights for a promising technology for treating and preventing a number of diseases, including hepatitis. The technology,...
Yale University biologists for the first time have succeeded in preventing the expression of genes that make bacteria resistant to two widely used antibiotics – chloramphenicol and ampicillin – thus restoring the bacteria’s sensitivity to the antibiotics...
Several of Connecticut’s elected representatives will be on hand Monday to participate in an announcement about a major federal grant received by Yale University to create and support a Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. The mission of the...
American child care regulations are mediocre or poor in every state because state legislators are setting standards far too low, thus posing a threat to children’s development. That is the finding of a Yale University study, which joins a spate of...
The Yale Psychological Services Clinic – YPSC, which is well-known in the New Haven area as a provider of reasonably priced psychotherapy, recently announced an expansion of its services to include obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia,...
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – HHS – has given the Yale School of Medicine a clean bill of health regarding its Medicare billing practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The School of Medicine was...