Intense physical exertion or an extreme emotion, like shoveling snow or anxiety over big gambling losses, can cause a rupture in the main artery leading to and from the heart, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in the American Journal of...
New Haven, Conn., October 31, 2007 – Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale University announced today that Yale alumnus Joel E. Smilow (Yale College ’54) will make a major gift to support the new 14-story cancer hospital, currently under construction at...
The University of Tokyo (Todai), Japan’s premier educational and research institution, and Yale University are launching a joint initiative designed to promote Japanese Studies in the United States.The initiative, titled the Todai–Yale Initiative for...
The Yale Community is invited to attend “United in Song for the United Way,” a benefit concert for the United Way of Greater New Haven, presented by Whim ‘n Rhythm and the Yale Whiffenpoofs.The concert will take place in Battell Chapel at Yale on Sunday,...
Natalia Ivanova, a young scientist who has already made landmark contributions to stem cell research, will join the Yale School of Medicine Stem Cell Center as assistant professor of genetics and the first Robert McCluskey Yale Scholar.Ivanova comes to...
By using a combination of inexpensive infection control measures, hospitals around the world could prevent half the new cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), according to a new study in The Lancet by researchers at Yale School of...
Readers around the world will soon have online access to thousands of rare books in Yale’s Library thanks to an agreement between the University and Microsoft Corp to digitize many volumes found only in the Yale collections.The Microsoft-Yale project will...
Charles Greer and Mary Whitman Newly created neurons in adults rely on signals from distant brain regions to regulate their maturation and survival before they can communicate with existing neighboring...
African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age and have larger tumors and more lymph node involvement than Caucasian women, a Yale School of Medicine researcher reported today.Speaking at the American Society for Therapeutic...
The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is launching a new Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program, which is designed to accommodate, among others, busy health professionals in the academic world. The Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program will take fewer than...