Robert I. White, Jr., M.D. of Yale University will travel to Buenos Aires to pave the way for the first center in Latin America to treat a rare but potentially fatal vascular disorder known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). White is...
A new legislative database launched today by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University gives policy makers, journalists, advocates, researchers and concerned citizens a single online destination for current information on government...
Robert S. Sherwin, MD, an internationally renowned diabetes researcher, has been appointed chief of endocrinology in the department of internal medicine at YNHH and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Sherwin, C.N.H. Long Professor of Medicine at Yale, has been...
Today, after four months of classroom and field-based training, the first class of the 10,000 Women: Yale-Tsinghua Certificate Program in International Healthcare Management graduated from this flagship initiative. This leadership development program is a...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were...
A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass”—a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease—Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.Coronary...
A Yale-led study reveals, for the first time, the process by which a particular genetic mutation causes seizures and ataxia, the neurodegenerative disorder believed to have afflicted Abraham Lincoln. The study appears online in the Early Edition of the...
PepsiCo announced today a voluntary policy to stop sales of full-sugar soft drinks to primary and secondary schools worldwide by 2012.This marks an important development in supporting safe and healthy nutrition for children around the globe and has been...
Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.Little is known about whether...
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...