Depression among economically disadvantaged mothers lasts well beyond the postpartum period, suggests a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The study also finds that symptoms could improve with brief treatment.The results will be...
The popular iPhone now offers a Lyme disease “app” that allows users to better protect themselves against the most prevalent insect-borne disease in the United States.Faculty and students at the Yale School of Public Health combined research data with...
A single, very unusual family with Tourette syndrome (TS) has led Yale School of Medicine researchers to identify a rare mutation in a gene that is required to produce histamine. The finding provides a new framework to understand many years of data on the...
Children with asthma are more likely to develop a range of health and social problems as they enter into adulthood, new research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study is published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Health Economics...
National Women’s Health Week is May 9-15. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the goal of this nationwide initiative is to empower women to make their health a top priority and encourage them to take simple steps for a longer,...
Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi, recently named the inaugural Elihu Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, is an internationally renowned expert in hip and knee replacement surgery.In the 1970s, Keggi pioneered the anterior approach to total hip...
Cutting-edge genomic technologies such as high-throughput DNA sequencing — will be the focus of the next Dean’s Workshop at the School of Medicine.The event will take place on Friday, May 21, at 1:30 p.m. in the Anlyan Center auditorium, 300 Cedar St....
Medical students will showcase their original research in posters and oral presentations on Tuesday, May 11, as part of the Yale School of Medicine’s annual Student Research DayThe event — which will also feature a talk by Dr. Lewis Landsberg, former dean...
For Jessie Papagoda of East Haven, Connecticut, the opening of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven changed everything.Until last October, Jessie and all cancer patients at Yale had to spend much of their day traveling between several buildings on the...
Stem cells derived from the endometrium (uterine lining) and transplanted into the brains of laboratory mice with Parkinson’s disease appear to restore functioning of brain cells damaged by the disease, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine...
