The “godfather” of school reform James P. Comer, M.D., the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, has won the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education.The prestigious award honors Comer’s commitment to...
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale will bestow Golden Apple Awards Thursday, December 7, on the winners of its first “Seeds of Healthy Change” contest, which is designed to generate creative ideas to battle the global obesity epidemic.At...
Alan E. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Child Psychiatry, and Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, has been named President of the American Psychological Association (APA), the largest association of psychologists worldwide...
Thomas M. Gill, M.D. With a structured exercise program, inactive older people at high risk for becoming disabled can improve their physical functioning and reduce their likelihood of having difficulty...
Susan H. Busch Differential cost-sharing approaches in employee health benefits encourage use of preventive care services while controlling a firm’s overall health-care costs, according to a study published...
Susan H. Busch Differential cost-sharing approaches in employee health benefits encourage use of preventive care services while controlling a firm’s overall health-care costs, according to a study published...
The authors of “Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic,” will speak Thursday about that country’s struggle with a disease that has killed more than one million South African men, women, and children. The talk will be at 4:30...
Josephine Hoh A gene variant that increases the risk of developing the aggressive “wet” form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in people over age 50, is reported...
Thomas A. Steitz (Photo by: M. Marsland) Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, received the 11th Keio Medical Science Prize in a ceremony and commemorative symposium on...
Yale School of Medicine is expanding its Continuing Medical Education program to include online courses for busy physicians who would like to attend classes from their office or home.“Our online learning program is unlike any other continuing educational...