Certified Nurse Midwife Saraswathi Vedam will speak on “Home Birth in the United States,” on November 9 at 7 p.m., at the Yale University School of Nursing. Vedam has been attending births for 18 years both in hospitals and homes. She is a charter...
Yale School of Medicine Dean David Kessler, M.D. will join Yale diabetes researchers on Nov. 1 to announce the opening of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Center for the Study of Hypoglycemia at Yale University. The press conference...
Patients about to undergo their first elective angioplasty to clear a coronary artery tended to minimize the risks and overestimate the benefits, a study by Yale researchers has found. “I don’t know what happened when they discussed the procedure with...
Women who wore a virtual reality headset during a painful surgical procedure for infertility found the soothing scenes and music reduced their anxiety and discomfort, a study by a Yale researcher shows. Steven Palter, M.D., assistant professor and...
The trauma that a majority of drug addicts suffer in early life has now been shown to increase their vulnerability to drug addiction, Yale researchers report in a new study. “Using well-established animal models, we’ve found strong evidence that early...
Protein toxins found in bacteria that are the most common culprit in food poisoning attack and destroy DNA, a study by Yale researchers shows. The finding, published in the journal Science, is significant because little is known about how these bacteria...
Yale University has been awarded $4.6 million from the Human Brain Project to help organize the huge volume of neuroscience research data being generated by scientists. The Human Brain Project, which is coordinated by the National Institute of Mental...
Renowned experts from around the country will present innovative women’s health research as part of the Third Yale Conference on Women’s Health & Fitness. The conference will run Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 26-28 at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, 155...
Brain scans of children born prematurely show key areas of the brain are much smaller than those of children born at full-term, a study by Yale researchers has found. The researchers conducted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans on 25 eight-year-olds...
Cancer epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll, who was the first to identify smoking as a leading cause of lung cancer, will receive the C-E.A. Winslow Medal from Yale University Oct. 19. The award is the first Winslow medal conferred by the School of Medicine...
