Mary Tinetti, M.D. The Yale/Hartford Center of Excellence (CoE in Aging has received renewed funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation to increase the amount of research, education, and leadership in...
This summer, eight Yale College students are dedicating their summer vacation to community service in New Haven as Dwight Hall Summer Interns, working on projects ranging from home hospice care to helping fifth and sixth graders improve their reading...
The Yale Symphony Orchestra’s live recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 will be aired on WNPR’s “Sunday Spotlight” on July 15 at 7 p.m This concert was originally performed and recorded on November 30, 2006. The broadcast will also feature Alma Mahler’s “...
Colors show calcium levels in brain cells in experiments with cytomegalovirus infection. A common brain virus that is usually harmless in adults but can be devastating in early development causes...
Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. Heart attack patients admitted to hospitals ranked to be among “America’s Best” by U.S. News & World Report are less likely to die within 30 days than those patients admitted to...
Mark Malloch Brown, the spring 2007 Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG), has been appointed by the new Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, to be the Minister for Africa, Asia and the United Nations....
Overweight children who are stigmatized by peers and their parents and teachers sustain profound and potentially lasting harm, according to a paper by scientists from Yale and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa. “Weight-based discrimination is as...
In what is believed to be the first meeting of its kind, Yale University is convening nearly 40 experts on nutrition, obesity, and addiction tonight and Tuesday to discuss the controversial topic of food and addiction. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the...
Leading researchers in Switzerland, France, Mexico, and at Yale School of Medicine, are pooling efforts under a five-year, $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to pinpoint the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. Hypertension affects more than...
Kristaps Juris Keggi, M.D., an international pioneer in the field of joint replacement, has joined Yale School of Medicine as clinical professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.Keggi also will direct the newly created Joint Replacement Center at Yale-...