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...
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...
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...
Yale School of Medicine is hosting a two-day symposium Nov. 1-2 on diseases of the aorta, with a dedication to the late actor John Ritter, who died of an aortic dissection four years ago.The “Summit on Acute Aortic Diseases: Lux et Veritas” will be held...
Drivers aged 70 and older who receive classroom and behind-the-wheel training can significantly improve their driving performance in tests of knowledge and on-road skills, according to a study in the Journal of Gerontology by researchers at Yale School of...
piRNA partner binds to chromosome A study by researchers at the Yale Stem Cell Center for the first time demonstrates that piRNAs, a recently discovered class of tiny RNAs, play an important role in...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have received $8.4 million to study how cancer cells mend their own chromosomes and DNA after damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy.The study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the next step in...