A Yale study of elderly people found that 24 percent complained of recurring dizziness and that factors such as anxiety, depression and heart disease might cause dizziness. “This kind of dizziness is common,” said Mary Tinetti, M.D., professor of...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
A new method of calculating oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere suggests that an increase more than 300 million years ago was caused by the rise and spread of trees and other vascular land plants, a Yale study finds. The new plant life produced dead...
A therapeutic cocaine vaccine designed to suppress the high addicts get from taking cocaine is safe and produced cocaine antibodies in humans, a Yale study finds. Thomas Kosten, M.D., principal investigator on the phase 1 study, and his team...
“Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” an award-winning documentary that weaves together the life stories of 19 Holocaust survivors, will preview at Yale on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. The film will be aired nationally on PBS on May 1 in honor of Holocaust...
A Yale psychiatrist testing the use of magnetic stimulation for schizophrenics who hear voices says increasing the duration of stimulation produces longer periods of relief. The research by Ralph Hoffman, M.D., associate professor and assistant medical...
A Yale research team has made a groundbreaking discovery that could make humans, livestock and crops a much less tasty meal for insects. The first insect taste receptor genes, which encode the proteins that underlie the insects’ sense of taste, have...
Increased use of the Technology Access Center (TAC) at Stetson Library in the Dixwell neighborhood, co-sponsored by Yale University and SNET, has led to more evening class offerings, most of which are nearly filled to capacity. Frank Meoli, the TAC’s...
Pulitzer-prize recipient Yusef Komunyakaa, one of the most compelling voices of his generation, will meet with students and hold a poetry reading at Yale during a visit March 29-30. Komunyakaa has published 11 books of poems, including the 1994...
Five-time Grammy-winner and mambo master Tito Puente will be honored by the Chubb Fellowship of Yale University on Thursday, April 6, with a symposium and concert celebrating his extraordinary contribution to Latin music. Both events are free and open...