Elizabeth Bradley, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has become the first Yale researcher to win the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators. The prize will be presented in June...
Adolescents report high rates of oral sex, more oral sex partners than intercourse partners, and infrequent use of protection from sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during oral sex, a group of Yale researchers has found. The study published in the...
Mice bred with a mutation that leaves them free of the proteins Nogo A/B, which are believed to block re-growth of critical nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, sprout new axons following spinal cord injury, a Yale research team has found. “In the...
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...