More than one-third of the sickest infants examined recently in an urban hospital emergency department tested positive for cocaine exposure, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. The finding suggests that passive exposure to crack-cocaine...
A team of Yale researchers has found that teaching coping skills to adolescents with diabetes significantly improves their metabolic control over the disease as well as their overall quality of life. The study has won the Applied Nursing Research Award...
Yale University researchers have visualized in atomic detail how two important female sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen, bind to their receptors – an accomplishment that could help scientists design better medications to treat breast cancer, ease...
Yale University researchers have visualized in atomic detail how two important female sex hormones, progesterone and estrogen, bind to their receptors – an accomplishment that could help scientists design better medications to treat breast cancer, ease...
Many menopausal women fear the ill effects of prescription estrogen. Physicians routinely prescribe the hormone for their patients, but fewer than half fill the prescriptions, says Yale researcher Susan Cohen. Within a year, only 20 percent of the...
The recent announcement that the drug tamoxifen may prevent breast cancer draws into sharper focus the social and ethical concerns surrounding genetic testing to screen for breast cancer risk, according to Yale University researcher Jeannie Pasacreta....
Your child begins to cough and sneeze over the weekend. If you bring her to the daycare center on Monday morning, will she infect the other children? Chicken pox, strep, ear infections, head lice, diarrhea… the miseries of childhood can be passed from...
Dr. David B. Larson, president of the National Institute for Health Care Research (NIHR), will speak on Thursday, April 9, at 4 p.m. in Marquand Chapel at Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. His talk is titled “Is God Good for Your Health? What Does...
A study released by researchers at Yale and Pace universities on the way managed care organizations MCOs employ nurse practitioners reveals a surprising inconsistency. Even though 82 percent of the MCO executives surveyed said that the use of nurse...
87 percent of people ages 12 to 34 feel invulnerable to AIDS virus; more than half say media messages on health risks are inadequate New Haven, CT – Nearly 9 out of 10 young people (87 percent) believe they are invulnerable to getting the AIDS virus,...
