Using “knockout” mice – a strain of mice in which a single gene is disabled in order to observe its role during development – researchers at the Yale School of Medicine and Vertex Pharmaceuticals have discovered that an enzyme called Caspase-9 plays...
More than 300 teachers, principals, parents and policy-makers interested in school-based child care are expected to attend the ninth annual School of the 21st Century conference, titled “Schools as Family and Community Resources: Ten Years of Experience...
More than one-third of the sickest infants examined recently in an urban hospital emergency department tested positive for cocaine exposure, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. The finding suggests that passive exposure to crack-cocaine...
More than one-third of the sickest infants examined recently in an urban hospital emergency department tested positive for cocaine exposure, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. The finding suggests that passive exposure to crack-cocaine...
A team of Yale researchers has found that teaching coping skills to adolescents with diabetes significantly improves their metabolic control over the disease as well as their overall quality of life. The study has won the Applied Nursing Research Award...
Yale University researchers have visualized in atomic detail how two important female sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen, bind to their receptors – an accomplishment that could help scientists design better medications to treat breast cancer, ease...
Yale University researchers have visualized in atomic detail how two important female sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen, bind to their receptors – an accomplishment that could help scientists design better medications to treat breast cancer, ease...
Many menopausal women fear the ill effects of prescription estrogen. Physicians routinely prescribe the hormone for their patients, but fewer than half fill the prescriptions, says Yale researcher Susan Cohen. Within a year, only 20 percent of the...
The recent announcement that the drug tamoxifen may prevent breast cancer draws into sharper focus the social and ethical concerns surrounding genetic testing to screen for breast cancer risk, according to Yale University researcher Jeannie Pasacreta....
Your child begins to cough and sneeze over the weekend. If you bring her to the daycare center on Monday morning, will she infect the other children? Chicken pox, strep, ear infections, head lice, diarrhea… the miseries of childhood can be passed from...