Keeping in close contact with heart failure patients once they leave the hospital has been an ongoing challenge for physicians. A patient’s condition can worsen with no notice and early intervention could potentially make a big difference.Researchers at...
Yale University researchers have discovered one of the first tantalizing clues to how frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - often mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease - wreaks havoc in the brain.About 40 percent of dementia cases are distinct from Alzheimer’s, even...
Yale University researchers have discovered one of the first tantalizing clues to how frontotemporal dementia (FTD) - often mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease - wreaks havoc in the brain.About 40 percent of dementia cases are distinct from Alzheimer’s, even...
The Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) Program at the Yale School of Public Health has partnered with New Haven Public Schools to debut Health Heroes, a social marketing initiative to encourage healthy behaviors, improve student health...
The program, initiated in 2008 at Jimma University, has already provided 23 senior Ethiopian health care professionals with the necessary leadership skills and management tools to improve the quality of health care for the people of Ethiopia. Eighteen...
A new study led by researchers from Yale School of Medicine shows that enhancing activity of a gene in the mitochondria, the power plant of the cell, prevents damage that can trigger type 2 diabetes. The study appears in the December 1 issue of Cell...
Demonstrating its commitment to translational medicine, Yale Cancer Center has appointed Roy S. Herbst, M.D., Ph.D., who has had a distinguished career in the development of cancer therapies, to the positions of chief of medical oncology and associate...
Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents are about 40 percent more likely than other teens to be punished by school authorities, police and the courts, according to a study by Yale University researchers. Published in the January 2011 issue of the...
Women treated for breast cancer who have elevated levels of circulating insulin face substantially higher mortality rates than their peers with lower levels, according to a new study authored by a Yale School of Public Health researcher. The research is...
Yale President Richard C. Levin Tuesday named biochemist and innovative educator Scott Strobel as vice-president of West Campus Planning and Program Development, to oversee the second phase of growth at Yale’s 136-acre facility in West Haven.Strobel will...