A medication used to ease symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, also is helpful in treating people with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a pilot study at Yale School of Medicine.Although...
President Richard C. Levin has named Margaret Grey, a pediatric nurse and diabetes expert, as dean of the Yale School of Nursing effective September 1, 2005.Grey is the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Scholarly Affairs at the...
New Haven, Conn. — In the courtship dance of male Club-winged Manakins, Machaeropterus deliciosus, rubbing and vibrating specialized wing feathers together creates a courting melody to attract their mates, according to a report in Science.Since Darwin...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has named Derek Toomre, assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, the Bayer Fellow in Medicine and Management for 2005-2006. He’s also Assistant Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer...
Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin proposed a mechanism for biological evolution, previously unrecognized diversity has been discovered among the giant tortoises of the Galápagos, Geochelone nigra, whose distinctiveness was an inspiration in...
Patients who are delirious during hospitalization one year later had 13 percent fewer days of survival during the following year when compared to patients without delirium, according to a study published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine....
High expression of TRAIL-R2, a cell surface receptor that triggers cell death, has been shown to be associated with a decrease in the survival rates of breast cancer patients according to a study published by Yale Cancer Center researchers in Clinical...
New Haven, CT - The environmental impact of what we buy and use is increasingly drawing the attention of business, governments, and consumers. The connection between consumption and environmental impact is analyzed in new and important ways in a special...
Yale School of Medicine is the recipient of a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a microarray center for research on the nervous system.The Yale center is a new addition to the NIH Neuroscience Microarray...
A celebration to mark the renaming of the Yale (Bush) Center in Child Development and Social Policy to the The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy, will take place Monday, July 25 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Donald J. Cohen...