Two grants totaling $1.65 million from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will allow the Center for Nicotine and Tobacco Use Research at Yale (CENTURY) to conduct research on tobacco-related policy issues and communicate findings. Policy...
The discovery of a million-year-old skull in Ethiopia indicates that a single species of human ancestor, Homo erectus, ranged from Europe to Africa to Asia in the Pleistocene era, according to the cover article in the March 21 issue of the journal Nature...
A Yale researcher tracing a recombinant virus as it entered the brains of laboratory animals found it damaged selective areas and then vanished without a trace, raising questions about possible mental problems caused by undetected viruses. “The virus...
A 29-year-old man with multiple sclerosis is the second patient to undergo transplantation surgery at Yale in an effort to repair myelin, the protective brain and spinal cord sheath that is destroyed by the disease, Yale researchers have reported. The...
Twenty five percent of obese children and 21 percent of obese adolescents tested by Yale researchers were glucose intolerant and at high risk for developing diabetes, according to an article published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Websites that rate hospitals’ performance may provide mixed results, according to a study by Yale researchers published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. There is increasing interest in using health data to help patients make...
In order to foster sound health care programs and policies concerning an aging population, a Yale researcher has devised a new index that forecasts which patients are most likely to die within one year after being discharged from the hospital. “It’s...
Yale researchers have designed a geriatric assessment protocol to identify problems that often go undetected in elderly patients, such as depression, incontinence, vision and hearing loss and driving safety issues. The guided care protocol provides a...
Funding of Yale University’s flagship program for broadening access to the sciences by identifying and nurturing talented students has been renewed by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Through the Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation, Inc. the...
A Yale professor will lead the United States delegation to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) meeting on Women in Physics, which will be held in Paris March 7-9. The delegation was formed under the auspices of The American...