The recent announcement that the drug tamoxifen may prevent breast cancer draws into sharper focus the social and ethical concerns surrounding genetic testing to screen for breast cancer risk, according to Yale University researcher Jeannie Pasacreta....
Your child begins to cough and sneeze over the weekend. If you bring her to the daycare center on Monday morning, will she infect the other children? Chicken pox, strep, ear infections, head lice, diarrhea… the miseries of childhood can be passed from...
Dr. David B. Larson, president of the National Institute for Health Care Research (NIHR), will speak on Thursday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. His talk is titled “Is God Good for Your Health? What Does...
A study released by researchers at Yale and Pace universities on the way managed care organizations MCOs employ nurse practitioners reveals a surprising inconsistency. Even though 82 percent of the MCO executives surveyed said that the use of nurse...
87 percent of people ages 12 to 34 feel invulnerable to AIDS virus; more than half say media messages on health risks are inadequate New Haven, CT – Nearly 9 out of 10 young people (87 percent) believe they are invulnerable to getting the AIDS virus,...
New Haven, CT The average carpool parent is 40 years old and shuttles three children. The most frequent destination is school, followed by sports, music lessons and scouts, in that order. Carpool parents also do a lot of waiting, spending an average...
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – HHS – has given the Yale School of Medicine a clean bill of health regarding its Medicare billing practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The School of Medicine was...
The Yale Psychological Services Clinic – YPSC, which is well-known in the New Haven area as a provider of reasonably priced psychotherapy, recently announced an expansion of its services to include obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia,...
American child care regulations are mediocre or poor in every state because state legislators are setting standards far too low, thus posing a threat to children’s development. That is the finding of a Yale University study, which joins a spate of...
Several of Connecticut’s elected representatives will be on hand Monday to participate in an announcement about a major federal grant received by Yale University to create and support a Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. The mission of the...