In the first large national study on the topic, Yale researchers found male and female physicians were more likely to refer men than women for cardiac catheterization, a diagnostic procedure used to assess blood flow to the heart, after a heart attack...
There is no evidence that adult primates are able to create new neurons in the neocortex, the most sophisticated part of the brain, Yale researchers have found in a study published in the December 7 issue of Science. The results do not support widely...
Early improvements in health-related quality of life for epilepsy patients were sustained over several years of treatment with the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam, according to new research presented today by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the...
Yale neurovirology expert Anthony van den Pol and colleagues have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a virus which can lead to deafness, mental retardation and brain diseases such as...
Yale surgeon James “Butch” Rosser, M.D., has devised a portable, cost-effective testing program called “Operation Beating Heart” to detect potential causes of sudden death in young, competitive athletes. The program uses a combination of telemedicine-...
The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center of the Yale School of Medicine will distribute more than $400,000 in “micro-grants” to Connecticut agencies and groups to support projects and programs that increase the quality and years of healthy life and/or...
The Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention at the Yale School of Medicine has received a five-year, $12.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to...
To help people quit smoking, a team of experts from Yale have created the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) and the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC). The Yale TTURC, which is part of CENTURY, was...
Two new studies by the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) will seek answers to questions such as “why do some women, people who drink, and people who are depressed, find it so hard to quit smoking?” and “why do some smoking...
Florence S. Wald, past dean of the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and a founder of the hospice movement in the United States, was honored on October 25 as a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) during its annual meeting in Washington, D...