Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a rare defect in a single gene that poses a substantial risk for metabolic syndrome and early heart disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.The international study, led by Arya Mani, M.D.,...
Photo caption: Normal (left) and PKD (right) mouse kidneys. [Credit: Crews/Yale] : High Resolution Photo : A treatment for polycystic kidney disease(PKD), a leading cause of...
Kelly Brownell, founder and director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, will testify before Congress on Tuesday, March 6, that schools provide an “unsafe nutrition environment” for children.Brownell will testify before the Senate...
Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center and 10 other institutions will share a $10 million gift from James and Marilyn Simons of The Simons Foundation to create a databank of DNA samples from autism patients around the country.The...
The Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, today released the results of a study on how people evaluate the risks and benefits of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is a field of applied...
Ronald Duman Antidepressants increase the presence of a growth factor in the brain, which then leads to a proliferation of new cells, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in this week...
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation for Health-Related Research are funding a Yale School of Medicine study about the way the elderly see themselves and another looking at new treatments to help people continue to drive....
The “default mode,” or baseline condition when the brain is idling, is not properly coordinated in patients with schizophrenia and this aberrant activity may be caused by poor connectivity between brain networks, a Yale School of Medicine researcher...
Harlan M. Krumholz A lack of funds to pay for medical treatment and prescriptions is common among heart attack patients and leads to a worse recovery, more angina, poorer quality of life and higher risk of...
Anthony van den Pol Yale School of Medicine researchers have received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study neurons that play a major role in narcolepsy.Narcolepsy is a...