The Yale Faculty Practice, a multi-specialty academic medical practice comprised of over 650 clinical faculty members from the Yale School of Medicine, elected 10 physicians last month to serve on its Board of Governors. The elections were the first...
The fifth annual Domestic Violence Seminar will be held at The Yale School of Public Health, 60 College St. on March 27 and 28. “It’s important that the issue of domestic violence receives public attention,” said seminar co-chair Kathryn Finney. “...
Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, has been awarded a $2.4 million federal grant to expand work on her program for adolescents with diabetes, an intervention that she demonstrated to significantly improve control of the...
Working memory loss can be reversed using a short-term drug regimen that produces long-lasting effects, a Yale study has found. Results from this study led by Stacy Castner at Yale School of Medicine may ultimately lead to new treatment strategies for...
Barbara A. Smith, R.N., F.A.A.N., an expert on the effects of exercise on serious illness, will deliver the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture at the Yale University School of Nursing on March 23, at 4 p.m. Smith, the O’Koren Endowed Chair at the University of...
Yale University and the University of Connecticut have received $6 million in grants to study ways of reducing the spread of HIV among drug users and others with HIV infection. One study will recruit HIV positive drug users to counsel their fellow...
A Yale psychiatrist testing the use of magnetic stimulation for schizophrenics who hear voices says increasing the duration of stimulation produces longer periods of relief. The research by Ralph Hoffman, M.D., associate professor and assistant medical...
A therapeutic cocaine vaccine designed to suppress the high addicts get from taking cocaine is safe and produced cocaine antibodies in humans, a Yale study finds. Thomas Kosten, M.D., principal investigator on the phase 1 study, and his team...
A Yale study of elderly people found that 24 percent complained of recurring dizziness and that factors such as anxiety, depression and heart disease might cause dizziness. “This kind of dizziness is common,” said Mary Tinetti, M.D., professor of...
Yale research on the new protein Calcyon could lead to development of more effective drugs for conditions which are marked by dopamine deficiency, such as Parkinson’s, chronic schizophrenia and possibly attention deficit hyperactivity disorder....