Beta-blockers are not prescribed for many older patients who could benefit from their use after heart attacks, according to an article in the Aug. 19 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In fact, the study found that only...
The human immune system, an elegant and intricate biological defense system unmatched in most life forms, may have evolved from a mobile piece of DNA that inserted itself into the mammalian genome more than 450 million years ago. A team of researchers...
David A. Kessler, M.D., J.D., dean of Yale University’s School of Medicine and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.), has accepted an invitation from The Mayday Fund to serve as honorary chairman of its newly formed National...
A drug that lowers brain levels of the chemical glutamate – one of the neurotransmitters responsible for relaying messages between neurons – can reverse symptoms of a rat model of schizophrenia without apparent side effects, according to a Yale...
U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., and Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will be featured speakers Sept. 18-20 at a special historical conference marking the centennial of the commercial introduction of...
Yale University announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the United States Attorney for Connecticut and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General that ends an investigation of the handling of...
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Institutes for Pharmaceutical Discovery in Branford, Conn., have discovered a possible new mechanism for the body to control its fat stores by inducing the growth of new blood vessels, which...
Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine and the Institutes for Pharmaceutical Discovery in Branford, Conn., have discovered a possible new mechanism for the body to control its fat stores by inducing the growth of new blood vessels, which...
Gail D’Eramo Melkus is fighting a vicious and subtle epidemic. Melkus, an associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing, studies diabetes in African-American women along with co-investigator Geralyn Spollett, assistant professor. Their work is...
Yale University has received a five-year, $4.3 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pursue advanced research in public health and health care. The grant will support Yale’s continued participation in the Foundation’s Scholars in...