A new test which helps physicians identify women who are most at risk of having or developing cervical cancer is now available through the School of Medicine’s department of pathology, the first site in Connecticut to offer this diagnostic tool. The...
A program designed to reduce six risk factors for delirium in hospitalized patients 70 years old or older successfully reduced the number of patients who developed symptoms by 40 percent compared to a control group, a Yale study has shown. Published...
Yale University announced plans today to construct a major medical research complex in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood to meet a growing need for more space at the top-ranked Yale School of Medicine. Construction of the $160-million, 440,000-square-foot...
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...
