The Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC), an academic-community partnership that promotes research and disease prevention, has been awarded nearly $1.2 million in grants by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One of the new...
Non-overweight women who are vulnerable to the effects of stress are more likely to have excess abdominal fat, and have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, a study conducted at Yale suggests.
While past studies have examined cortisol response in...
The Yale Physician’s Building Art Place will kick off a second exhibit with the work of Kosovo Refugee, Burim Myftiu and13 other artists on Friday, September 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 800 Howard Avenue. Myftiu, who arrived in the United States with just...
In an effort to focus on the importance of women’s health and disseminate research results on the health of women by Yale-affiliated researchers, Women’s Health Research at Yale will host a half-day professional conference starting at 11 a.m. on...
A gene present in about 1.6 percent of the general population places these persons at risk for a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder when they take the common antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole or Bactrim(tm), Yale researchers have found. The...
Ten years after passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Yale researchers have used the largest disability survey ever conducted to examine the prevalence and impact of mental and physical disability in the United States. The team found...
The Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology at Yale School of Medicine will present the “Neurotherapeutic Effects of Music,” on Saturday, September 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar Street. The symposium will explore recent...
Best-selling novelist and social commentator Tom Wolfe will speak about his life as a graduate student at Yale, on Wednesday, October 11, at 4 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall Street. Wolfe’s talk is titled “Maggie, a Girl of the...
Vincent Ilardi, a visiting fellow and emeritus faculty member in the history department at Yale University, will be delivering two lectures on Renaissance vision on September 28 and October 5 this fall. Ilardi’s lectures, titled, “Renaissance Vision...
The Yale Physician’s Building Art Place will kick off a second exhibit with the work of Kosovo Refugee, Burim Myftiu and13 other artists on Friday, September 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. at 800 Howard Avenue. Myftiu, who arrived in the United States with just...