New Haven, Conn. — Yale Cancer Center physicians have presented clinical recommendations for the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of superior vena cava syndrome in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.The article in Clinical Practice...
New Haven, Conn. — Those who most need medical care in Korea but can afford it least spend a greater percentage of their income on health services, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published in the American Journal of Public Health. “Low-...
New Haven, Conn. — The stronger the reduction in nicotine craving after smoking the first cigarette in the morning, the more difficult it will be to quit smoking, according to a Yale School of Medicine study in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In a study of...
New Haven, Conn. — Yale Cancer Center’s eighth annual black tie benefit, La Cassa Magica, was held on Saturday, April 21, at the Belle Haven Club in Greenwich. The evening raised over $400,000 to support the creation of a unit for clinical trials within...
Pietro DeCamilli New Haven, Conn. — A gene found exclusively and at high levels in the brain appears to be a key player in enabling more sophisticated brain function, Yale School of Medicine researchers...
Yale School of Medicine and University of Crete School of Medicine researchers report in Cell April 20 the first evidence of a molecular mechanism that dynamically alters the strength of higher brain network connections.This discovery may help the...
New Haven, Conn.—Where there is cigarette smoking there is probably misuse of alcohol too, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Archives of Internal Medicine. “This means cigarette smoking status can be used as a clinical...
New Haven, Conn.—Cleve Killingsworth, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and an advocate of health insurance reform, will receive the John D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Fellow 2007 award from Yale School of Medicine’s...
Paul Cleary, dean of Public Health and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering. Paul Cleary...
Teen smokers exposed to nicotine in the womb have trouble looking at or listening to something attentively, Yale School of Medicine researcher and associate professor of psychiatry, Leslie Jacobsen, reports in Neuropsychopharmacology.The study also found...