The number of people treated for depression has increased dramatically, most likely due to reduced stigma about mental health problems as well as the availability of new medications, according to a Yale School of Medicine researcher. The study,...
When schizophrenic patients quit smoking, some aspects of their cognitive function become impaired, according to a new study published this month by Yale researchers in the Journal Neuropsychopharmacology. The researchers found that cigarette smoking...
Despite reports to the contrary, clean water and full strength bleach remain an effective means for injection drug users to disinfect syringes contaminated with the HIV virus, a Yale study has found. For years, bleaching of syringes was suggested to...
Recently completed reproductions of the ancient Maya murals of Bonampak will be exhibited to the public at Yale’s Saybrook College, 242 Elm Street, on Friday, January 11, 1-5 p.m. Discovered by archaeologists in 1946, the 1,200-year-old wall paintings...
The Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) has received a five-year, $1.5 million award from the Fogarty International Center to establish an HIV research and training collaboration with the University of Pretoria in South Africa....
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, is the new associate dean for faculty affairs at Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mazure’s training and experience, as well as her in-depth understanding of both the...
Carolyn Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, is the new associate dean for faculty affairs at Yale School of Medicine. “Dr. Mazure’s training and experience, as well as her in-depth understanding of both the...
Contrary to previous Yale findings showing beneficial effects of acupuncture for treating cocaine addiction, a new large-scale study published in the January 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that acupuncture is not...
Susan E. Lederer, assistant professor of the history of medicine at Yale, will present a lecture on Thursday, January 17, on the ways in which public health policies concerning blood transfusions have reflected prevalent attitudes about race and...
Six Yale University scholars joined by two other leading scholars in international relations, security and science analyze the implications of September 11 in America and beyond in their book, “The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11...
