Ruth Whittemore, M.D., a retired Yale pediatric cardiologist, who provided pre- and post-operative care for the baby who received the first “blue baby” operation, died on December 27, 2001 in Connecticut at age 84. A widely recognized pediatric...
Administrators, faculty, staff and students in public health at Yale will celebrate the life and words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the first floor lobby of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public...
Michael Holquist, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and chairman of the department of comparative literature at Yale, has been awarded an honorary doctoral degree by Stockholm University in Sweden. Holquist is closely associated with the...
The number of people treated for depression has increased dramatically, most likely due to reduced stigma about mental health problems as well as the availability of new medications, according to a Yale School of Medicine researcher. The study,...
When schizophrenic patients quit smoking, some aspects of their cognitive function become impaired, according to a new study published this month by Yale researchers in the Journal Neuropsychopharmacology. The researchers found that cigarette smoking...
Despite reports to the contrary, clean water and full strength bleach remain an effective means for injection drug users to disinfect syringes contaminated with the HIV virus, a Yale study has found. For years, bleaching of syringes was suggested to...
Recently completed reproductions of the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak will be exhibited to the public at Yale’s Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street, on Friday, January 11, 1-5 p.m. Discovered by archaeologists in 1946, the 1,200-year-old wall paintings...
The Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a five-year, $1.5 million award from the Fogarty International Center to establish an HIV research and training collaboration with the University of Pretoria in South Africa....
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, is the new associate dean for faculty affairs at Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mazure’s training and experience, as well as her in-depth understanding of both the...
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, is the new associate dean for faculty affairs at Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mazure’s training and experience, as well as her in-depth understanding of both the...
