After 88 days alone with the sounds of the ocean, meals of only freeze-dried rations or energy bars, and wind that blew him every which way but toward land, Paul Ridley is home. On March 29, Ridley completed a 3,500-mile solo row across the Atlantic Ocean...
A young black man with the grades and the desire to attend the Yale School of Medicine in the 1800s faced seemingly insurmountable odds, but the power of relationships is what made it possible for Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed to beat those odds, said...
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
Evidence suggests that having a close relative with type 1 diabetes puts individuals at greater risk of developing the disease, but one Yale researcher is investigating whether it’s possible to prevent a genetic disposition from turning into a full-blown...
Pediatrician Dr. Stuart Orkin, who is investigating the role of stem cells in the development of blood disorders and cancer, will be the featured speaker on Tuesday, May 12, at Student Research Day, the Yale School of Medicine’s annual salute to the...
Yale University, world-renowned in the field of global health, epidemiology end emerging viruses, is offering specialists to speak on the global swine flu crisis. They can address many aspects of this outbreak, including diagnosis, treatment, comparisons...
Dr. Michael Sernyak, professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has been appointed the next director of the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), effective July 1.He succeeds Dr. Selby Jacobs, who is retiring at the end of the academic year....
Beginning this summer, New Haven will become a global showcase for proactive health care intervention as the first U.S. city to participate in an international project to address chronic disease: Community Interventions for Health (CIH).Working alongside...
While the quality of medical care available in the United States is the best in the world, says otolaryngologist Dr. Keat Jin Lee of the Yale School of Medicine, the system that delivers that healthcare is unacceptably expensive, disjointed and wasteful....
Ami Klin, the newly designated Harris Professor of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, is a developmental psychologist who is a world-renowned expert on severe developmental disorders, particularly autism and related conditions.Klin is the director of the...