What is a good death and how can the health care team provide the best care for patients near the end of life? There are no easy answers, but beginning this fall Yale University students will grapple with these issues under a blended learning curriculum...
The human nervous system is like a giant home entertainment system, but instead of 20-odd wires there are trillions of connections that must be made perfectly before the network operates effectively. Scientists have long been fascinated about how the...
Heroin addicts fare better when treated with an opiate maintenance medication than one designed to block the drug’s effects, Yale University researchers reported Thursday in the journal Lancet.In countries such as Russia, Malaysia and in some clinics in...
The epidemic of Lyme disease in the U.S. is caused by a bacterium that has European ancestry, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that is co-authored by scientists at Yale School of Public Health and the...
Yale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires’ disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients. In order to survive, the gram-negative bacteria use genes that have evolved in tandem with ones in...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...
Yale’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (Ob/Gyn) recently sponsored two Yale medical students on a medical mission to Kenya, where they participated in the care of women with a condition known as vesicovaginal fistula,...
Yale University announced today the appointment of James E. Rothman, one of the world’s leading cell biologists, as chair of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology. Additionally, Rothman will launch the Center for High-Throughput Cell...