A team of Yale Cancer Center researchers has confirmed that between 10-20% of breast cancers classified as Estrogen Receptor (ER) negative are really positive. Understanding when and why breast cancers may be misclassified has important implications for...
There is a 17% greater risk of dying after a heart attack if you are treated in a hospital located in a U.S. territory-i.e. the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands-rather than in a hospital in the mainland...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that a clinical trial of the epilepsy drug gabapentin may have been a “seeding trial” used by a pharmaceutical company to promote the drug and increase prescriptions, according to a report in the June issue...
On the heels of President Obama’s recent visit to London, where he pledged to improve research links with the United Kingdom, a delegation from Yale School of Medicine, led by Dean Robert Alpern, joined leaders from University College London (UCL) at the...
Yale Cancer Center experts in lung cancer screening, surgery and medical oncology are available to speak about the groundbreaking study results published in the New England Journal of Medicine that find, early lung screening of smokers and former smokers...
The Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF), a Hong Kong-based philanthropy devoted to advancing education and healthcare, has awarded $1.5 million to Yale University to expand two research core facilities, the human embryonic stem cell core and the genomics core,...
Yale researchers have devised a novel way to trick cells into getting rid of problematic proteins, a method that could help pharmaceutical companies quickly identify promising targets for new drugs.“Our new approach offers great potential in overcoming a...
Funding social services might be more effective in improving the health of a nation’s population than spending money on health services, according to a study by the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) published in the July issue of BMJ Quality...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have described for the first time the structure of a member in an enigmatic family of proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a crucial early step in understanding key mechanisms of the disease and designing drugs to...
There are cultural difference not only in the way we smile, but also in how we can tell a fake smile from a real one, says Yale psychology professor Marianne LaFrance in an interview with healthzone.ca.Click here to read the interview.