Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation has named Raymond R. Russell, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine in the section of cardiology at Yale School of Medicine, the Bayer Fellow in Medicine and Management for 2004–05. In 2002, Bayer made a...
Prions, infectious proteins associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease, were previously thought to accumulate mainly in the brain, but Yale and University of Zurich researchers report in Science that other organs can also...
A combination of four proteins that result from inflammation and infection and lead to premature birth can be rapidly and accurately detected in the amniotic fluid of pregnant women using proteomics technology, Yale researchers report in two studies in...
A forum on open access to peer–reviewed research articles and the dissemination of published research will be held from 3–5 p.m. on Thursday, February 10 in Harkness Auditorium of the Yale School of Medicine at 333 Cedar Street. The purpose of the forum...
Adolescents who smoke show impairment of memory and other cognitive functions, according to a Yale study in Biological Psychiatry. More than 4.5 million teenagers smoke cigarettes in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and the...
A Yale researcher and expert in the practice of acupuncture is conducting a three–year study on the effectiveness of this ancient Chinese practice in reducing low back pain during pregnancy. The study is funded with a $400,000 grant from the National...
The varicella vaccine is almost 90 percent effective against chickenpox, but its impact on herpes zoster (shingles) is unknown and needs wider surveillance, Yale School of Medicine researchers write in today’s New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...
On a recent trip to India, Yale President Richard C. Levin and a delegation of Yale officials formally opened a new office for Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) housed at YRG Care, a non–profit organization based in Chennai. The...
George A. Silver, M.D., emeritus professor of public health at Yale School of Medicine and former deputy assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), died January 7 at age 91 in Chevy...
Expanded HIV screening can increase patient life span, prevent the spread of the disease, and is cost effective, researchers at Yale, Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital report in the February 10 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (...