Ohio State University professor David Huron, a noted scholar on the physiological and psychological response to music, will deliver four lectures at Yale to answer a question that has long intrigued poets, scientists and philosophers: “What is it about...
James C. Tsai, M.D. James C. Tsai, M.D., M.B.A., an authority on glaucoma, has been named chair of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. As chair, Tsai will be...
Yale will help set the stage, November 13–15, for an event a recent New Yorker article described as “the largest theatre collaboration ever”: Suzan Lori Parks’s ambitious “365 Days/365 Plays.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright has written a play for...
Acute lung injury caused by cell death, high and potentially toxic concentrations of oxygen (hyperoxia), and the resulting excess fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), may be controlled by modulating levels of the angiopoietin2 (Ang2) protein, researchers...
Heart attack patients who also have another acute condition such as stroke, kidney failure and pneumonia may have a poorer outcome than those without these conditions, and those with the most severe conditions account for a disproportionate percentage of...
A detailed study of 520 patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and dissection indicates a very strong genetic link, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.“All immediate family of patients with aneurysms of any...
Members of the media are welcome to attend and cover the Veterans Day commemoration at Yale on November 11, beginning at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.The event features a concert by the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’...
The amygdala is a central processing station in the brain for emotions, but Yale researchers report that the amygdala also plays a role in working memory, a higher cognitive function critical for reasoning and problem solving...
Global health inequalities are substantial, growing, and influenced by economic, social and health-sector variables as well as geography, a study concludes in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.“Particularly disturbing...
Hospitals that provide the most rapid emergency angioplasty have specific strategies to expedite the care of patients with heart attacks, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the November 13 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).The...