Aiming to cut costs in health care, more and more hospitals are eliminating the position of “monitor watcher” in cardiac telemetry units. A monitor watcher is a Registered Nurse specially trained to keep track of patients by...
A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 6, for Virginia A. Henderson, a long-time researcher at the School of Nursing whose textbooks are used worldwide. Ms. Henderson died March 19 in Branford. She was 98 years old. The...
The Yale School of Nursing will dedicate its new facility at 100 Church Street on Friday, June 7, 9-11 a.m. Yale University Provost Alison Richards, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Courtland Wilson from the Hill Neighborhood Corporation...
The Yale Office of Cooperative Research – OCR– and ArQule Inc. of Medford, Massachusetts, announced today that Yale University has granted the company an exclusive license for the development of patent-pending discoveries made by Harry...
President Richard C. Levin announced today that David A. Kessler, the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will become dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, effective July 1, 1997. Dr. Kessler is a graduate of the Harvard...
Members of the print and electronic media are invited to attend a Yale community meeting at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 13, at which Yale President Richard C. Levin will announce a major appointment of interest to the Yale and New Haven-area...
Nobel laureate Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, will present a lecture as the Jonathan Edwards College, JE, Tetelman Fellow on Monday, March 3, at noon in the School of Medicine’s Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St....
Yale University biologist Craig M. Crews has discovered how a promising cancer medication, now in clinical trials, starves tumors by cutting off their blood supply. The discovery, for which Yale is seeking a patent, will enable pharmaceutical firms to...
Yale University and Innovir Laboratories Inc. of New York City recently announced they have been granted additional broad patent rights for a promising technology for treating and preventing a number of diseases, including hepatitis. The technology,...
Yale University biologists for the first time have succeeded in preventing the expression of genes that make bacteria resistant to two widely used antibiotics – chloramphenicol and ampicillin – thus restoring the bacteria’s sensitivity to the antibiotics...
