A Yale study shows that make believe play enhances school-readiness skills in children, particularly those from low-income families. Dorothy and Jerome Singer, directors of the Yale Family Television Research and Consultation Center, found that training...
A one-cent tax on soft drinks, candy, chips and other snack foods could raise $1.8 billion for national health promotion programs aimed at reducing obesity, a Yale study shows. The tax and resulting revenue were outlined in a study published in the June...
The surviving spouse in an unhappy marriage is likely to have fewer health problems than a spouse who loses his or her partner in a happy marriage, a Yale study shows. “Freud said that ambivalent and conflicted relationships would predispose the...
A new Yale study reports increased rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts by young adults nationwide with general medical illnesses, such as asthma, bronchitis and cancer. “Suicidal ideation and attempts are quite common and frequently are seen in...
Ian Shapiro, chair of the political science department at Yale University and a recent inductee into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is among the first group of 12 Carnegie Scholars awarded a total of $1.1 million to support innovative...
A memorial service will be held in Yale University’s Dwight Chapel in the fall for retired Physics Professor E. Robert Beringer of Hamden, who died May 27. Beringer was born in western Pennsylvania in 1917 and completed his undergraduate work at...
To combat the prevalent problem of head lice in children, a Yale pediatrician has invented a shampoo that makes the nits visible under ultraviolet lights, making for easier, more effective removal. The shampoo contains a non-toxic fluorescent dye that...
The College Board’s campaign to offer 10 Advanced Placement classes in every high school is misguided because few of the students enrolled in expanded AP programs will receive passing scores on the exam, a Yale study shows. William Lichten, a fellow at...
Combining a drug used to treat alcoholism with a drug treatment for opiate addiction may be the key to treating cocaine addicts, a Yale study finds. When buprenorphine, an alternative to methadone for treating opiate addiction, was combined with...
Along with Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, Frederic Lawrence Holmes, the Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine and chair of Yale’s History of Medicine section, was among the 47 recent inductees into the...