Yale School of Medicine on October 5 will celebrate the opening of a new four-story building on Amistad Street to house medical researchers working on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and the biology and uses of stem cells.“This laboratory building will...
If one spouse exercises, quits smoking, stops drinking alcohol, receives a flu shot, or undergoes a cholesterol screening, the other spouse is more likely to do the same, according to a new study in Health Services Research...
Carolyn M. Mazure Carolyn M. Mazure has received the 2007 Marion Spencer Fay Award, which honors a distinguished woman physician or scientist whose national leadership has had a major impact on research and...
Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D. There is no evidence that “chronic Lyme disease” exists and if it does, the risks of prolonged antibiotic treatment outweigh any benefits, according to a review article by...
David A. Fiellin, M.D. Yale School of Medicine researcher David A. Fiellin, M.D., has received a five-year $2.9 million grant from The National Institutes of Health to advance his research on substance...
Kathleen Belanger The Yale School of Public Health has received a $15 million grant to take part in a national study that will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to understand factors that...
Three Yale School of Medicine faculty—Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., and Mary F. Tinetti, M.D.—have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, it was announced this week.Members are elected...
The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) will lead an initiative to develop a blueprint for improving the nation’s public programs with support from a $400,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Paul Cleary, dean of YSPH, will convene the nation...
Erol Fikrig, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine researcher who specializes in the study and treatment of Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and other vector-borne diseases, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.HHMI is a non-profit...
The Helene Fuld Health Trust of New York has pledged $2 million to help Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) provide critically needed financial aid for students who enroll in its highly competitive graduate entry program for non-nurses.The Trust also...