Disaster planning and response, including preparations for special populations, will be the topic of a conference April 17-18 sponsored by the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Yale School of Public Health. “Community Preparedness:...
Based on everything from name calling to losing a job, perceived discrimination against overweight people is on the rise, according to a study by Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The study published in Obesity is believed to be the...
A genetic mutation in a gene that is a marker for asthma severity may also play a role in causing the disease, researchers at Yale School of Medicine and the University of Chicago report today in the New England Journal of Medicine.“We know from a recent...
Yale University researchers report today in the journal Nature Genetics that they have discovered that rare genetic variants can be associated with a dramatically lower risk of developing high blood pressure in the general population. The insight that...
Twelve Yale University stem cell research proposals received $5.66 million in funding from the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.The grants were among $10 million awarded Tuesday to Connecticut-based scientists in the second year of...
Some change in the environment in many East Asian communities during the past few thousand years may have protected residents from becoming alcoholics, a new genetic analysis conducted by Yale School of Medicine researchers suggests.The study by Hui Li...
A team of astronomers looking at the universe’s distant past found nine young, unusually compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. The findings appeared in the April 10 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.These...
New Ways to Harvest Energy Yale seniors will demonstrate two engineering projects on energy harvesting — a sidewalk that generates storable electrical energy as you walk on it and a human-powered iPod...
The environment will continue to deteriorate as long as capitalism continues to be the modern world’s economic engine, argues Gus Speth, dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, in his new book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World...
On Friday, April 18, U.S. Governors and top environmental officials will meet at Yale University to exchange ideas on how states and the federal government can combat global warming and develop a strategy for future action.“This is the first time such as...