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...
The Yale School of Medicine chapters of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) and Boricua Latino Health Organization (BLHO) will co-sponsor a community health fair titled “Healthy Haven 2001” on Saturday, November 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at...
The Emerging Infections Program (EIP) of the Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) has received a three-year grant for about $1.2 million from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the...
Two Yale School of Medicine researchers have been elected by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., to membership in the organization that recognizes major contributions to health and medicine and whose...
