The arts have the ability to heal the soul. Medicine has the ability to heal the body. In what promises to be a remarkable event, the two disciplines will unite at Long Wharf Theatre for an in-depth exploration of Global Health and the Arts Thursday Jan....
Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The...
Peter Cresswell, the newly designated Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology, has spent most of his career unraveling some of the mysteries of the human immune system.Creswell’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing, in...
Dr. David J. Leffell, newly designated as the David Paige Smith Professor of Dermatology, is a renowned specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma and other skin cancers and in surgical treatment using the Mohs micrographic technique.His...
Dr. Gerald I. Shulman, who has been named the inaugural George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry, is an internationally known diabetes researcher.He focuses his studies on understanding the cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance, the role...
Racism in the healthcare system is the subject of a documentary film and workshop being presented on Thursday, Jan. 22, by the School of Medicine and URU, The Right To Be Inc.The 55-minute film, titled “The Deadliest Disease in America,” will be screened...
By the time it is detected in many women, ovarian cancer has already spread to a point that makes treatment difficult or impossible. In a boost to their efforts to improve ovarian cancer detection and find a cure for the disease, Yale School of Medicine...
The movement of facial skin and muscles around the mouth plays an important role not only in the way the sounds of speech are made, but also in the way they are heard according to a study by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research...
Simple aspirin may prevent liver damage in millions of people suffering from side effects of common drugs, alcohol abuse, and obesity-related liver disease, a new Yale University study suggests.The study in the January 26 edition of Journal of Clinical...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified proteins associated with early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS), a stealthy bacterial infection linked to premature birth, illness and death. Using protein analysis, the researchers have found the biomarkers...