The repetitive behaviors exhibited by some children and teens with autism spectrum disorders are not reduced with the antidepressant citalopram, according to a study in the June issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....
This month, Yale University’s newly launched Global Health Leadership Institute will host “Strategic Problem Solving in Global Health,” an innovative conference that will bring together health officials from five countries and members of Yale’s global...
In an effort to transform medical education and bring it into line with 21st century scientific knowledge, Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., and Sharon Long, Ph.D., Dean Emerita of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, co-...
In a study that sheds light on how insurance coverage may drive health care and may reveal an unexpected result for the uninsured, a team of Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital physicians has found that babies from uninsured...
To raise awareness about gun violence in New Haven and to help bring an end to the problem, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale School of Medicine and the New Haven Family Alliance, have teamed up to create a photo exhibit that...
Beginning this summer, New Haven will become a global showcase for proactive health care intervention as the first U.S. city to participate in an international project to address chronic disease: Community Interventions for Health (CIH).Working alongside...
With the U.S. Senate’s historic passage of legislation giving the FDA broad new powers over tobacco products, smoking cessation and addiction experts from the Women’s Health Research at Yale program and Yale School of Medicine are available for media...
High levels of brain energy are required to maintain consciousness, a finding which suggests a new way to understand the properties of this still mysterious state of being, Yale University researchers report. At its simplest, consciousness can be defined...
In research that could lead to new approaches for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, a Yale School of Medicine team has found that suppressing a liver enzyme that induces glucose production helped diminish the symptoms of the disease in a rat model —...
In the hope of stemming one of the biggest public health crises in Southeast Asia, Yale University is partnering with the University of Malaya to fight the spread of HIV among drug users in Malaysia who are completing prison terms and transitioning back...