“Food Fight,” a new book by a Yale expert on nutrition and obesity, warns that today’s children might be the first generation in modern history to live shorter lives than their parents because of poor diet. “The food and physical activity environments...
The physicians of the Yale Medical Group, who provide patient services at several different locations in New Haven, will offer uninterrupted care in the event of a strike by unionized Yale University employees. Yale unions have scheduled a strike to...
Imaging studies have identified unique brain activity changes in men with pathological gambling when they viewed videotapes about betting on cards or rolling dice at a casino, a Yale study has found. The study, which is believed to be the first...
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded the Yale Child Study Center a $25,000 grant for evaluation of the “Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service” (IICAPS). IICAPS was developed at Yale in 1995 as a model of home-based...
World-renowned neuroscientist Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic, professor of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, died on July 31 at age 66. “Pat Goldman-Rakic was one of the most distinguished...
Women who have served in the military are up to four times more likely to become homeless when compared with women in the general population, a Yale researcher has found. One of three authors of the study, Robert Rosenheck, M.D., professor in the...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that a professorship has been created at the Yale School of Medicine in honor of Dr. Donald J. Cohen, who was a pioneer in child psychiatry and served as director of the Yale Child Study Center...
Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., M.D., the David Paige Smith Professor emeritus and former deputy dean at the Yale School of Medicine died at age 75 in West Falmouth, Mass. on July 8. Donaldson and Yale colleagues Kathleen Lundgren and Howard Spiro recently...
Eye black grease, a combination of beeswax and pigment used by many athletes to combat sun glare, provides better contrast sensitivity than anti-glare stickers, Yale researchers have found. “Eye black grease appears to be more than just psychological...
The W.M. Keck Foundation, a leading supporter of high impact medical research, science and engineering, has named Kevin White, an assistant professor of genetics at Yale School of Medicine, one of five grant recipients under its Young Scholars in Medical...
