The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, part of the Yale School of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year, nearly $200,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the benefits of a meditation and massage-intervention program for...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that a diet high in cholesterol, animal protein and vitamin B12 is linked to risk of a specific type of cancer of the stomach and esophagus that has been increasing rapidly. The researchers also found that...
The frequently prescribed antihistamine and sedative medication diphenhydramine is associated with a 70 percent increased risk of changes in mental status and evidence of delirium symptoms in older, hospitalized patients, Yale researchers report in a...
When stable methadone patients, who were formerly addicted to heroin and other narcotics, switch from a narcotic treatment program to a physician’s office for continuing methadone maintenance treatment, they become more accepting of the treatment and...
Yale is one of 11 universities across the country participating in the first national study to determine the most effective current treatments for alcoholism by evaluating various combinations of counseling and medications. The Combining Medications and...
Perry Miller, M.D., professor of anesthesiology and director of Medical Informatics at Yale School of Medicine, has received a $1.3 million grant as part of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative to support planning for Centers of...
The Yale Department of Psychiatry in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill will hold a conference for the Spanish-speaking public on the latest developments in...
Donald J. Cohen, The Sterling Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology at Yale University and director of the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine, died on October 2 at age 61. Widely recognized as the...
Researchers at Yale have developed a new molecule they call “icon” that targets blood vessels in tumors for destruction by the immune system without harming vessels in normal tissues. “Our study resulted in the eradication of injected tumors and also...
The Yale Department of Psychiatry and the Child Study Center will sponsor “Community Meeting: Discussion of the Aftermath of September 11” on Friday, September 28 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the Brady Auditorium, 310 Cedar St. The meeting will be moderated...