In a two-part study, researchers at Yale have found that 89 percent of women are willing to switch from gynecologists who do not support their decision to have fibroids treated using Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive treatment...
Yale University President Richard Levin announced today the appointment of Helaine S. Klasky as the University’s Director of Public Affairs and Special Assistant to the President. Ms. Klasky has held senior public affairs positions with the U. S....
Siblings who are addicted to cocaine and opioids, among them morphine, codeine and heroin, are being recruited for Yale University-led studies to determine the locations of genes that increase risk for cocaine, opioid and tobacco addictions. The study...
University Properties announces the grand opening of Gourmet Heaven, a grocery, delicatessen and food shop serving the Yale community and the New Haven community adjacent to the Broadway District. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will join Bruce...
The vaccine for chickenpox, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995, is highly effective in preventing chickenpox or minimizing the severity of the disease in children, according to a study by researchers at Yale. “We know from these...
The Yale Faculty Practice has formally changed its name to the “Yale Medical Group,” after considering a variety of factors, including a change in the function, governance and purpose of the organization. “In the past several years, the faculty practice...
In recognition of Yale University’s 300th anniversary, the United Nations is issuing a special cancellation stamp joined by the United States Postal Service, which is marking the Tercentennial with a commemorative postal card. The Tercentennial of the...
The annual symposium of the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowship in International Human Rights will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., on March 30 and 31. This year’s symposium, “Politics and Human Rights: A Bipartisan Agenda for U.S. Foreign Policy...
A Yale University professor, Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., has received an award of $300,000 to support his research into the extent to which axons can rearrange themselves and recover after injuries to the nervous system. The Memory and Brain Disorders...
The latest advances in treatments for sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy and insomnia will be discussed at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Sleep Society on March 30-31 at the Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple St. The meeting is...
