A New York Magazine cover article titled “Surgery Without Scars…” has included nine surgeons in the Yale Medical Group on a list of the top 100 minimally invasive surgeons in the tri-state area. “We are pleased that nearly 10 percent of the top 100...
A neuropeptide whose loss is believed responsible for narcolepsy, a disease characterized by sudden sleep attacks, also appears to play a role in the modulation of pain sensation, a study by a Yale researcher has found. The findings, published as the...
Dosage appears to be a critical factor in the effectiveness of a cocaine vaccine being tested by Yale researchers that is designed to block the euphoria drug abusers experience. Of eight patients in the second phase of clinical trials of the vaccine,...
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation today announced the election of Yale School of Medicine Dean David Kessler, M.D., to chair its Board of Directors. Kessler will lead the Foundation’s efforts to improve the lives of children worldwide...
The Discovery Room, a Yale program designed to help students learn how to manage their own behavior, will be unveiled at Public School #28 in Paterson, New Jersey on January 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. “Children who develop well, learn well,” said James...
With the Vietnam War in the somewhat distant past, people need to be reminded about the crippling occupational, marital and psychological effects on soldiers who fight wars, says a Yale researcher who is studying veterans. Holly Prigerson, associate...
A Yale School of Medicine and Veteran’s Affairs Administration study finding that patients with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) have lower nighttime levels of bilirubin, a bile pigment found in the blood and known by ancient Greek physicians as a “...
Many of the risk factors for more advanced breast cancer also apply to an early form of breast cancer known as breast carcinoma in-situ, according to a study by Yale researchers that is the first large scale study of risk factors for this type of early...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have received a $9 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to help translate research findings about alcoholism into treatment for patients. The five-year grant to John Krystal, M.D...
A celebration of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Yale Hon. LLD. ‘64) will take place on the Yale campus beginning on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January 15, and continuing through a two-day festival on January 20-21. The first in the...
