The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is launching a new Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program, which is designed to accommodate, among others, busy health professionals in the academic world. The Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program will take fewer than...
Yale School of Medicine is hosting a two-day symposium Nov. 1-2 on diseases of the aorta, with a dedication to the late actor John Ritter, who died of an aortic dissection four years ago.The “Summit on Acute Aortic Diseases: Lux et Veritas” will be held...
piRNA partner binds to chromosome A study by researchers at the Yale Stem Cell Center for the first time demonstrates that piRNAs, a recently discovered class of tiny RNAs, play an important role in...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have received $8.4 million to study how cancer cells mend their own chromosomes and DNA after damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy.The study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the next step in...
A tendency to extract messages from meaningless noise could be an early sign of schizophrenia, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.The study this month in the British Journal of Psychiatry reported on 43 participants diagnosed with...
Yale scientists have discovered a way to use a simple blood test that may accurately detect thoracic aneurysm disease (TAA), which gives little warning and is almost always fatal if untreated.The study, published this month in Public Library of Science (...
Proteins within the bacteria that cause Legionnaire’s disease can kidnap their own molecular “coffin” and carry it to a safe place within the cell, ensuring their survival, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Nature Wednesday.“This supposedly...
Joseph Califano Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, will discuss strategies for curbing substance abuse in a talk at Yale School of Medicine on October 19 titled, “High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What To Do...
Erol Fikrig, M.D., a Yale School of Medicine researcher who specializes in the study and treatment of Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and other vector-borne diseases, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.HHMI is a non-profit...
The Helene Fuld Health Trust of New York has pledged $2 million to help Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) provide critically needed financial aid for students who enroll in its highly competitive graduate entry program for non-nurses.The Trust also...