Yale School of Medicine researchers today released laboratory based data identifying significant new signaling pathways for ovarian cancer and have found that drugs can be used to successfully alter signals to induce cancer cell death. The results were...
Actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in an equestrian competition in 1995, will be the keynote speaker April 3 at the Yale University Stem Cell Interest Group meeting in the Yale School of Medicine’s new biomedical and research building at 300...
Research aimed at finding new drug therapies for the paralysis, loss of vision, pain and other symptoms related to multiple sclerosis will be presented in a meeting on April 17 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Haven. The event will...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will co-sponsor a conference featuring experts from the United States and abroad discussing critical issues in HIV/AIDS. The conference, titled “Structural Inequality and HIV/AIDS...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) has chosen the Yale School of Medicine as one of four institutions that will train participants in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program for 10 years beginning in 2005. Yale has been an RWJ...
Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a world authority on the history of science and medicine, died March 27 after a long illness. Holmes was chair of the Section of History of Medicine...
A memorial service will be held April 19 for Ira Richard Levine, M.D., an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and an attending psychiatrist on the Dual Diagnosis Unit of Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. Levine,...
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will hold a fundraising event today for the newly created “Creative Writing Award” from 6 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the New Haven Country Club, 160 Hartford Turnpike in New Haven. Distinguished Yale surgeon and noted...
A new study of low-carbohydrate diets published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association shows that carbohydrate content in a person’s diet is not associated with weight loss. “We found that calorie content and how long you’re on the...
The Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry is offering 12 weeks of free cognitive behavioral therapy for major depression as part of a study to measure possible changes in brain chemistry associated with treatment. The neurotransmitter GABA...