The Yale University School of Nursing’s Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care will hold its annual convocation February 27, featuring a keynote speech by nursing scholar Donna Diers. Amy S. Kuhner, the founder of a children’s hospice, and Janet...
When VA hospitals cut inpatient psychiatric care, there is no overall reduction in effective care and clinical outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients, Yale researchers report in the February issue of 15 Medical Care. “We found no...
When VA hospitals cut inpatient psychiatric care, there is no overall reduction in effective care and clinical outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients, Yale researchers report in the February issue of 15 Medical Care. “We found no...
A homeless psychiatric patient’s race and the race of his or her case managers has no effect on the quality of mental health services the patients receive, or on their clinical outcomes, Yale researcher Robert Rosenheck, M.D. reports in a recent study...
Yale School of Medicine has established the Creed/Patton/Steele Scholarship Fund, which recognizes the importance of diversity in graduate and professional education, and honors the achievements of Courtlandt Van Rensselaer Creed, M.D., the first African...
Yale School of Medicine’s International Health Program, which sends U.S. physicians-in-training to countries in the developing world, will expand with funding from Johnson & Johnson. The Yale International Health Program (IHP) was founded in 1981 by...
Most nurses comfort the dying by listening to them and by administering pain medication, but more than half of the nurses in the hospital setting never discuss hospice care, a Yale study has found. The study was a collaborative effort conducted with the...
Robert Rosenheck, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Yale and one of the world’s leading authorities on homelessness and post-traumatic stress disorder among military veterans, has received the Carl A. Taube Award for Distinguished Contributions to the...
Using new DNA chip technology, Yale researchers have identified virtually all of the gene targets of some key proteins, known as transcription factors. Transcription factors tell a cell whether it will be, for example, a muscle cell or a nerve cell....
A symposium on “Current Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, on February 9 and 10. The symposium, free and open to the public, begins Friday afternoon with welcoming remarks by Anthony T. Kronman,...
