Q Dean David A. Kessler of the Yale School of Medicine and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will be on hand Feb. 10 to unveil plans for a major medical research complex to be built in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood. Where: Hill Regional Career High...
Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator whose pioneering research in hypertension has led to the identification of more than a dozen genes that regulate blood pressure, has been appointed chair of the...
David J. Leffell, M.D., medical director of the Yale Faculty Practice for the past three years and a professor of surgery and dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine, has been appointed associate dean for clinical affairs by Dean David A....
Even though fruit flies and humans are separated by 800 million years of evolution, a human gene can suppress the growth of tumors when transplanted into a type of fruit fly called Drosophila, according to Yale University School of Medicine researchers,...
8. Simple Test Quickly Detects Alzheimer’s Disease in Older Adults 9. Estrogen-Androgen Therapy Improves Sexual Function in Women 10. Women Under 75 Twice as Likely to Die as Men After Heart Attack 11. Fetal Brain Damage in Monkeys Leads to...
Noted Yale University physiologist Ethan R. Nadel, who was the director of the Yale-affiliated John B. Pierce Laboratory, died Dec. 26 of cancer at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was professor of epidemiology and public health and of cellular and...
LYMErix* Becomes First Lyme Disease Vaccine on the Market New Haven, CT – LYMErix*, pioneered by Yale University researchers and manufactured by SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for...
A simple test of the ability to tell time and count change may provide a new approach to screening for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in older adults, according to a study in this week’s Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and an...
Dr. Thomas Zeltner, director general of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, will explain his country’s fourfold approach to reducing the problems associated with drug addiction on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at Public Health Grand Rounds. The talk is free...
Heart disease causes more deaths than any other disease in the United States, and hypertension is not far behind. Two noted research scientists – Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., of the Yale School of Medicine, and Christine E. Seidman, M.D., Harvard...
