Elisha Atkins, M.D., professor emeritus of internal medicine/infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and an expert in the mechanism and biological importance of fever, died April 22 at age 84 in Belmont, Massachusetts. Atkins’s research on the...
Researchers at Yale, in collaboration with NIH researchers, have identified a specific protein molecule that is used by the immune system for detection of parasitic infections, leading the way for development of future vaccines to combat these infections...
The Seaver Institute has awarded a grant to the Yale School of Medicine for research on autoimmune disease and has also funded the enhancement and study of the Cuban collection at the Yale Library. The grant to the School of Medicine will advance the...
Black cohosh, an herb widely used by breast cancer patients to alleviate hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms, may alter the way that cells respond to drugs commonly used to treat breast cancer, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published...
The scientists commemorated are thermodynamicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, geneticist Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann, and physicist Richard Feynman.(Full Size Image) A First Day of Issue ceremony for a series of stamps honoring...
A study of African–American women in menopause shows that while they experience many of the same symptoms as white women, they report more vasomotor symptoms such as dizziness and bloating, according to a study by a Yale School of Nursing researcher. The...
Using X–ray crystallography, researchers at Yale have “seen” the structural basis for antibiotic resistance to common pathogenic bacteria, facilitating design of a new class of antibiotic drugs, according to an article in Cell. In recent years, common...
The same gene that accounts for part of a genetic risk for developing alcoholism in a U.S. population is found in a Russian population, according to a published study by a Yale School of Medicine researcher. “These findings help demonstrate that...
Alvin Novick. (Photo by John Curtis.)(Full Size Image) Alvin Novick, 79, physician, biologist, Yale University professor, and AIDS community leader, died on April 10, 2005 in New Haven. He had prostate cancer. Professor Novick taught biology at...
Shirley Chater, former U.S. Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, will discuss social security reform and the challenges to the social security system on Wednesday, April 20, at 3:30 p.m., at Yale School of Nursing, 100 Church Street South...