Yale investigators have found that integrating primary medical care as part of mental health services for patients with serious mental illness results in significant improvements in their health status and access to medical care. “Patients with serious...
The producers of a television documentary on Benjamin Franklin, whose papers are housed at Yale University, will present a preview of their series on January 19. The Franklin project, which is being produced by Twin Cities Public Television and...
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yale researchers present an illustrative case and offer strategies for communication and caring for patients who have lost a loved one. Medical training offers little guidance to...
A Yale expert on juvenile diabetes is heading a national group that will be testing the most advanced blood sugar sensing technology for children with type 1 diabetes, research that hopefully may lead to the first artificial pancreas. The project...
The Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a five-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to add three new research cores and expand the functions of existing cores. “This new grant...
On December 1, 2001, the “Ignazio Silone International Prize” was awarded to Giuseppe Mazzotta, the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Italian and Chairman of the Department. A native of southern Italy, Mazzotta grew up in Toronto and...
The Yale School of Medicine class of 2003 will present ticket receipts from their Second Year Show, an annual variety entertainment revue, to the Community Health Care Van (CHCV), a mobile Yale University program that provides free community health care...
In the largest and longest placebo-controlled treatment study of its kind, Yale researchers have found that the alcoholism drug naltrexone is not beneficial in treating alcoholism. Published in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the...
In an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a Yale School of Medicine faculty member reported that the vast majority of Yale medical students cried as a result of emotional encounters with patients during their first...
A letter to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, written by Yale Law School faculty and students about the use of military tribunals has been circulated among U.S. legal scholars. By the time the...