Ten guiding principles to strengthen global health strategies and outcomes have been created by a Yale School of Public Health professor and other experts.Health systems strengthening (HSS) is a broad-based approach that addresses underlying causes of...
Charles “Andy” Morgan III, MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, was the recipient of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (ASMUS) 2010 Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize.The award is presented for an essay, which reports an...
Yale University researchers were able to reduce symptoms of lupus in mice by eliminating a key immune system cell and in doing so may have identified a new therapeutic target for a variety of other autoimmune diseases.The findings, reported in the...
A new study led by Yale School of Medicine reveals a persistent anomaly in the mortality rates of male Latino youth: Although the U.S. Latino population has an overall favorable health profile despite its socioeconomic challenges, young Latino males...
A three-year study by Yale School of Medicine researchers has found that vaccinating pregnant women against influenza is over 90 percent effective in preventing their infants from being hospitalized with influenza in the first six months of life....
Yale Cancer Center has named Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D., a world-renowned leader in the field of signal transduction, as the founding director of the new Cancer Biology Institute. The appointment, which is effective immediately, is a major step toward...
Serving cereals marketed as “children’s cereals” increases children’s total sugar consumption and reduces the nutritional quality of breakfast compared to serving low-sugar cereals, according to a new study conducted by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and...
A Yale University researcher has found virus-like genetic material within samples of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, a finding that challenges scientific consensus on the nature of these deadly brain-wasting diseases.Many scientists say that...
Nationally known breast cancer expert and director of the Yale-New Haven Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital, Anees Chagpar, MD, is available to provide comment and insight on the new data presented on breast cancer at this week’s San Antonio Breast...
Yale University researchers have found that a single molecule not only connects brain cells but also changes how we learn. The findings, reported in the December 9 issue of the journal Neuron, may help researchers discover ways to improve memory and could...
