Detecting and treating schizophrenia rapidly, following the onset of a first psychotic episode, improves the patients’ response to treatment, according to a study by a Yale researcher. Thomas McGlashan, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Yale School of...
The Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Center for Health Policy and Ethics is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Collaborative Practice Symposium on February 26. This year’s event, entitled “The Promises and Realities of Collaborative Practice,” features a panel...
Jordi Casals-Ariet, M.D., a renowned Yale epidemiologist who clarified the relationship between viruses that cause central nervous system disease, died on February 10, 2004 at age 92 in New York City. Casals spent much of his academic life studying the...
Yale researchers have found a major decrease in the effectiveness of varicella (chicken pox) vaccine after the first year of vaccination, but the vaccine is still very effective overall. “The effectiveness of the varicella vaccine does drop...
Researchers at Yale have found that decreased activity in muscle mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell, may be a major factor in the development of type 2 diabetes in young, lean offspring of parents with the disease. They demonstrated a potential...
Yale researchers have reported promising preliminary results of a Phase Ib/IIa study in women with recurrent ovarian cancer using phenoxodiol, an experimental anti-cancer drug that could kill cancer cells and increase effectiveness of standard...
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Yale researcher $6 million to transplant neural cells in primates in an attempt to replace dopamine lost in Parkinson’s disease. Transplantation of fetal neural cells was carried out on a limited basis in...
Robert E. Shope, M.D., emeritus professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, died at age 74 in Texas...
Joseph B. Warshaw, M.D., dean of the University of Vermont (UVM) College of Medicine, former Yale faculty member, and an expert on fetal growth and neonatal medical care died December 29, 2003 in Burlington, Vermont at age 67. A leader in pediatrics...
Three researchers in the Yale Program on Aging were honored for their work at the Gerontological Society of American’s (GSA) 56th Meeting in San Diego, California. The GSA meeting is organized to foster interdisciplinary interactions among...