A 29-year-old man with multiple sclerosis is the second patient to undergo transplantation surgery at Yale in an effort to repair myelin, the protective brain and spinal cord sheath that is destroyed by the disease, Yale researchers have reported. The...
Twenty five percent of obese children and 21 percent of obese adolescents tested by Yale researchers were glucose intolerant and at high risk for developing diabetes, according to an article published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Websites that rate hospitals’ performance may provide mixed results, according to a study by Yale researchers published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There is increasing interest in using health data to help patients make...
In order to foster sound health care programs and policies concerning an aging population, a Yale researcher has devised a new index that forecasts which patients are most likely to die within one year after being discharged from the hospital. “It’s...
Yale researchers have designed a geriatric assessment protocol to identify problems that often go undetected in elderly patients, such as depression, incontinence, vision and hearing loss and driving safety issues. The guided care protocol provides a...
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has given $100,000 toward the endowment fund for Women’s Health Research at Yale to help the program inform the community about landmark scientific studies and results. The grant, for The Community Fund...
President Richard C. Levin has named professor and former chair of psychology, Alan Kazdin, as the new director of the Yale Child Study Center. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and professor in the Yale Child Study Center, will begin...
Yale researchers have revealed how a kind of bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease can navigate its own course within a human cell by injecting a protein that can steer host cell membranes. Legionnaire’s disease is a severe pneumonia resulting...
The treatment of pressure ulcers and other chronic wounds is about to be revolutionized with the founding of the Program for the Advancement of Chronic Wound Care at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN). The YSN Program, announced on February 20 and planned...
Taking cocaine during pregnancy causes possibly permanent changes in an area of the brain that governs short term memory — leading to symptoms that are very much like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Yale researchers have found in two recent...
