A research team at Yale has found that blocking a kind of cell death called apoptosis in fibrotic diseases of the lung, also blocks the fibrosis, opening new ways of looking at treatment for lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Published in the...
A genetic mutation related to a more aggressive form of breast cancer occurs four times more often in African American patients than their white counterparts, Yale researchers report in the August 9, 2004 online edition of the journal Cancer. In the...
In a paper published this month in Molecular Cell, Yale researchers have, for the first time, described the atomic structure of a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. “Alzheimer’s disease is a major health problem because of the aging of the...
Marathon runners 50 and older, and female athletes in particular, are showing greater improvement in running times than younger runners, according to a study by a Yale professor. Peter Jokl, M.D., professor of orthopedics, and his co-authors, Paul Sethi...
Yale University is a key member of a nationwide group of medical centers awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a study of childhood absence (petit...
Treatment to lower systolic high blood pressure in older persons is associated with substantial reduction of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, Yale researchers report in the September 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. The...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed Katherine Jones, R.N., FAAN, whose research focuses on health care quality and improvement, Acting Dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) effective Sept. 1, 2004. Jones joined the YSN faculty one year ago...