Eight distinguished members of the Yale University faculty were named among the 203 newly elected Fellows and 24 new Foreign Honorary Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members are nominated and elected to...
Yale Cancer Center Director Dr. Richard L. Edelson announced the appointment of Daniel DiMaio, M.D., PhD, to Scientific Director of the Center. In this role, DiMaio will have broad oversight of all basic science research within Yale Cancer Center (YCC).“...
State regulations requiring equal insurance coverage for mental illness does not increase usage and reduces out-of-pocket expenditures for families who have children with mental illness, a Yale School of Medicine study reports in the journal Health...
Children’s resistance to scientific explanations is based in what they know and how much they trust the person who told them, Yale researchers report in Science this month.The resistance will continue into adulthood if the scientific claims are challenged...
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D. Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’ Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine, has...
The nighttime breathing disorder known as sleep apnea increases a person’s risk of having a heart attack or of dying by 30 percent over a period of four to five years, according to a Yale School of Medicine study.These findings and another Yale study...
Curtis Patton Yale will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the graduation of Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, M.D., the first African American student to graduate from Yale, on June 1 and 2, beginning with a reception at...
New Haven, Conn. —Yale Cancer Center is proud to announce the launch of a weekly program, Yale Cancer Center Answers on WNPR Connecticut Public Radio. Beginning on National Cancer Survivors Day, June 3, the radio program will air from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. on...
The ion channel activated by menthol also detects a wide range of cold temperatures and relays the information to the brain, according to a study in Nature by Yale School of Medicine, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and the...
Yale Cancer Center and the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Clinic sponsored a two-day clinical symposium on cancer survivorship for healthcare professionals on May 22-23 at Yale School of Medicine. The medical education symposium included 34...