The Yale/Hartford Center of Excellence (CoE) in Aging has received renewed funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation to increase the amount of research, education and leadership in aging issues within medical specialties. The CoE, led by Mary E....
HistoRx, Inc., a bioscience company offering novel digital technologies for in situ diagnostics developed at Yale School of Medicine, has located its operations at 25 Science Park in New Haven. Their technology, called AQUA(tm) (Automated Quantitative...
Jeffrey S. Schechner, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at Yale School of Medicine, who was instrumental in advancing research on blood vessels in the skin and human skin grafting, died on September 7 in New Haven at age 39. Schechner, who also...
Yale neurologist Albert Lo, M.D., has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in recognition of his achievements and potential in the field of neurology. Lo...
Unlike younger recreational gamblers who show high rates of alcohol use and abuse, depression, bankruptcy and incarceration, there appears to be an association between recreational gambling and good health among elderly persons, according to a Yale study...
Researchers in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at the Yale School of Medicine have been awarded a four year, $1.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the association between mammographic breast density and the...
Treating patients with a drug called aprotinin reduces the risk of stroke by 47 percent in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The study...
For people who say they never believe what they read in the newspapers, a Yale researcher found the reality is something different. In two studies published in the journal Psychological Science, Yale Ph.D. candidate Victoria Brescoll and Marianne...
Treatment to lower systolic high blood pressure in older persons is associated with substantial reduction of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, Yale researchers report in the September 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. The...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed Katherine Jones, R.N., FAAN, whose research focuses on health care quality and improvement, Acting Dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) effective Sept. 1, 2004. Jones joined the YSN faculty one year ago...