The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) has chosen the Yale School of Medicine as one of four institutions that will train participants in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program for 10 years beginning in 2005. Yale has been an RWJ...
Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Avalon Professor of the History of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a world authority on the history of science and medicine, died March 27 after a long illness. Holmes was chair of the Section of History of Medicine...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) will co-sponsor a conference featuring experts from the United States and abroad discussing critical issues in HIV/AIDS. The conference, titled “Structural Inequality and HIV/AIDS...
Research aimed at finding new drug therapies for the paralysis, loss of vision, pain and other symptoms related to multiple sclerosis will be presented in a meeting on April 17 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Haven. The event will...
Yale School of Medicine researchers today released laboratory based data identifying significant new signaling pathways for ovarian cancer and have found that drugs can be used to successfully alter signals to induce cancer cell death. The results were...
Actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralyzed in an equestrian competition in 1995, will be the keynote speaker April 3 at the Yale University Stem Cell Interest Group meeting in the Yale School of Medicine’s new biomedical and research building at 300...
William Wallace Lumpkin Glenn, M.D., world-renowned pioneer of cardiovascular surgery, died on March 10 at Monadnock Community Hospital in Peterborough, New Hampshire at age 88. Using a pump made from parts of a child’s Erector set, Glenn and his...
Leading researchers will gather at Yale University April 13-15 to present the latest findings about the role of glutamate - a major neurotransmitter in the brain - in a wide range of psychiatric disorders. The conference is sponsored by the New York...
Yale School of Medicine’s annual symposium on recent advances in basic and clinical neuroscience will be held Saturday, March 29, in the school’s Harkness Auditorium. Speakers at the symposium, which is titled, “Towards Recovery from Mental Illness: How...
The physicians of the Yale Medical Group, who provide patient services at several different locations in New Haven, will offer uninterrupted care during the pending one week strike March 3-7 by unionized Yale University employees. David Leffell, M.D.,...
