Cathy Cohen, professor of political science and African American studies at Yale, will be a guest speaker at the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) on February 23. The lecture, titled “AIDS, Homophobia and the Politics of Black...
Forced and voluntary sterilization in the United States was more closely allied to the policies of Nazi Germany than previously believed, a Yale study shows. The study by Andre Sofair, M.D., and Lauris Kaldjian, M.D., both assistant clinical professors...
Doctors who train for a time in underdeveloped areas are more likely, as they pursue their careers, to care for underserved patients, a Yale study shows. Anu Gupta, a third-year resident who conducted the survey, said doctors who participated in Yale...
The Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care at the Yale School of Nursing will honor the founders of the American hospice movement at its annual convocation on February 15 at 4 p.m. at the Yale School of Nursing. The keynote speaker will be Cindy...
Yale Professor Edward Zigler, who is credited with conceiving programs and policies such as Head Start and family leave, has been awarded a $250,000 gift from the Heinz Family Foundation. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology and of the Yale Child...
Despite widespread anxiety about Lyme disease, Yale researchers have found that treatments for the tick-borne disease are effective and long lasting. “The outcomes of the vast majority of patients with Lyme disease were excellent and not much different...
Yale researchers have found that psychological stress can facilitate sudden death by increasing the chances that arrhythmias – abnormal heart rhythms – are more lethal in susceptible patients. These kinds of deaths, said Rachel Lampert, M.D., the study’...
A new light sensitive drug used to treat the most severe form of macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50, is being tested at Yale School of Medicine. The drug, verteporfin, is expected to receive approval by the U...
Reversing brain and spinal cord injuries may soon be possible with the discovery of a gene and protein responsible for stopping axon regrowth, Yale researchers say. Brain and spinal cord axons can grow after injury if provided with an adequate...
After having heart attacks, patients with mental illnesses are significantly less likely to undergo cardiovascular procedures than patients without mental disorders, Yale researchers say. “Having a mental disorder reduces a patient’s chances of...
