Gender, marital status and children appear to play a powerful role in influencing the careers of surgical residents, according to a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The study appears in the May issue of Archives of Surgery, a...
Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues have used a non-medication behavioral intervention to reduce chronic tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS).The team found that a specialized form of behavior therapy called...
Weight discrimination poses serious risks to the psychological and physical health of obese individuals and should be considered a social justice issue as well as a public health priority, according to a paper from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and...
Prion proteins appear to be the key culprit in the loss of memory in mice with brains riddled with plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Yale scientists report.The findings reported in the Journal of Neuroscience show that common cellular prion...
Yale University faculty will receive $3 million in grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to fund innovative educational programs, the institute announced May 20.Yale was awarded $1.6 million to support a variety of undergraduate science...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to select sperm with the highest DNA integrity in a bid to improve male fertility. The method is comparable to that of the egg’s natural selection abilities, according to the study published...
“I’m not confused about who I am or where I came from,” said Yale faculty member Nadia L. Ward as she accepted the Thurgood Marshall Community Service Award this spring.“My grandfather was a coal miner with a 4th-grade education and my mother remembers...
Dr. David M. Walker, instructor in pediatric emergency medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, has been named a 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholar.Walker will work at the pediatric emergency service of the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi,...
For some time after Yale University purchased the 136 acres of office buildings, streams and woodlands that comprised the former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex in 2007, the primary occupants of West Campus were turkey, geese, deer and coyotes.That is no...
Ingrid Nembhard’s ability to connect with large numbers of students and make a course in Leadership and Organization Behavior engaging and relevant did not go unnoticed by the Class of 2010.Nembhard was named Yale School of Public Health’s Class of 2010...