Kristaps Juris Keggi, M.D., an international pioneer in the field of joint replacement, has joined Yale School of Medicine as clinical professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.Keggi also will direct the newly created Joint Replacement Center at Yale-...
Leading researchers in Switzerland, France, Mexico, and at Yale School of Medicine, are pooling efforts under a five-year, $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to pinpoint the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. Hypertension affects more than...
In what is believed to be the first meeting of its kind, Yale University is convening nearly 40 experts on nutrition, obesity, and addiction tonight and Tuesday to discuss the controversial topic of food and addiction. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the...
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Heart attack patients admitted to hospitals ranked to be among “America’s Best” by U.S. News & World Report are less likely to die within 30 days than those patients admitted to...
Overweight children who are stigmatized by peers and their parents and teachers sustain profound and potentially lasting harm, according to a paper by scientists from Yale and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa. “Weight-based discrimination is as...
Colors show calcium levels in brain cells in experiments with cytomegalovirus infection. A common brain virus that is usually harmless in adults but can be devastating in early development causes...
Kim Woodrow Kim Woodrow, a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical engineering at Yale, is one of the five American women recently honored by L’Oréal USA with their 2007 Fellowships for Women in Science.Woodrow...
Mary Tinetti, M.D. The Yale/Hartford Center of Excellence (CoE in Aging has received renewed funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation to increase the amount of research, education, and leadership in...
A research paper co-authored by Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor of Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, and Daniel Kress, senior program officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,...
Erol Fikrig Blocking a tick protein that protects the Lyme disease bacteria as it moves from mice back to the tick that infected them might reduce incidences of the illness among humans, a Yale School of...