Illnesses and injuries leading to hospitalization or restricted activity are key sources of disability for independent older persons, regardless of physical frailty, Yale researchers report in the November 3 issue of JAMA. “The risk of developing...
Yale researcher Heping Zhang has received two grants totaling $1.5 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to develop statistical methods for identifying genes in nicotine dependence and related conditions. One of the grants is an...
Low education level can significantly impair functional recovery in older adults after a hospital stay, Yale researchers report in the November 1 issue of the American Journal of Medicine. The level of education completed, a marker of socioeconomic...
In light of today’s announcement that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, has breast cancer, you may want to speak with the following expert on breast cancer at Yale School of Medicine. Teresa Ponn, M.D., a breast...
In light of today’s announcement that Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, has breast cancer, you may want to speak with the following expert on breast cancer at Yale School of Medicine. Teresa Ponn, M.D., a breast...
Edward H. Kaplan, the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, and professor of Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, one...
The Journal of Industrial Ecology (JIE), an international peer-reviewed English-language quarterly, owned by Yale University and published by MIT Press, has recently translated summaries (abstracts) of all its articles into Chinese. The translations...
Experimental physicist Richard L. Garwin, IBM fellow emeritus and contributor to the design of the first hydrogen bomb, will present two talks sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering on Wednesday, November 17, at Yale. “Mining the Acoustic Records in...
The younger a person is when they begin to gamble, the more likely they are to develop psychiatric and substance use problems, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in The Archives of General Psychiatry. The report is believed to...
Yale researchers are conducting a study of a medication that could help reduce the withdrawal symptoms that might sabotage the efforts of people who are trying to quit smoking. Andrea Weinberger, project director for the new trial, says dopamine levels...