Yale Cancer Center has been selected by “Coast to Coast: A Run for Survivorship” as the primary beneficiary for its cross country run in 2006.“We are honored that ‘Coast to Coast’ has partnered with Yale Cancer Center to increase awareness and funding for...
In recognition of National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, a team of physicians from the Yale-New Haven Thoracic Oncology Program of Yale Cancer Center is available for interviews on the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options available for...
Agnès Vignery, associate professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation, and cell biology has been named Yale-Pfizer Global Discovery Visiting Professor for 2005.At Pfizer’s Groton Laboratories, Vignery, whose research focuses on the developmental and...
An advanced study launched at Yale School of Medicine is evaluating the role of statin therapy in patients with heart failure, one of the leading causes of hospitalization in people over age 65.While statins—drugs that inhibit cholesterol production in...
Joshua Copel, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine expert in first trimester risk assessment for Down syndrome is available to comment on the First and Second Trimester Evaluation of Risk (FASTER) trial, published November 10 in the New England Journal of...
Jeremy Gray Meditation is known to alter resting brain patterns, suggesting long lasting brain changes, but a new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows...
H. Klar Yaggi, M.D. Sleep apnea, a condition where people stop breathing repeatedly while asleep, increases the risk of stroke and death, according to a study from Yale School of Medicine published November 10 in the New England Journal of...
Jennifer Prah Ruger Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor in the Global Health Division in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2005 Annual Labelle Lectureship in Health Services...
There will be a poetry reading at the Yale Physicians Building November 17 to celebrate the publication of the poetry anthology, “Caduceus,” which contains many poems written by physicians and health care providers.The reading will coincide with the 11th...
November 14, 2005To: Editors and Reporters Re: Possible new trial for Andrea Yates In light of a recent decision to either retry Andrea Yates, or consider a plea bargain, following the overturn of the conviction and life sentence for drowning her...