Elderly female mice who spent three hours a day racing on running wheels and playing with rodent toys showed a marked improvement in their spatial memory, according to researchers at Yale. The study to be published in the July/August issue of the...
Yale School of Medicine will celebrate the opening of 300 Cedar St., its newest research and education building, on May 2. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D., will lead the celebration with a keynote address at 3:30 p.m...
When older patients followed a non-drug intervention strategy for preventing delirium, their rates of delirium were lowered by as much as 89 percent, Yale researchers report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. “It has been well-...
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation has awarded Yale University $2.1 million to establish the Donaghue Initiative in Biomedical & Behavioral Research Ethics. The grant will be used by the university’s...
A drug that can ease the process of quitting smoking by reducing the craving for cigarettes will be available to participants in a Yale study. The study will try to determine what kind of information works best when it comes to encouraging smokers to...
In light of current world events, Yale School of Nursing (YSN) will host a public forum to address how religious diversity and tolerance affect health care in our community on April 24, at 5:30 p.m. in room 118, YSN, 100 Church St. South. David Shaheed...
A study by Yale University researchers provides preliminary evidence that there may be more than twice as many genes in the human genome than previously predicted. Using an advanced genomic technique, researchers looked for all the genes on human...
A study by Yale researchers suggests that the atypical antipsychotic drug risperidone reduces tic symptoms in children and adults with Tourette syndrome (TS). “These results suggest that risperidone is safe and effective for short-term treatment of tics...
Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr., M.D., professor of immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator died on April 12 at age 60 in New Haven after a long illness. Janeway was one of the leading...
A molecule that destroys blood vessels in tumors also is effective against blood vessels associated with macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness after age 55, according to a collaborative study by scientists at Yale University and the...
