Thirty years after it was given a name, the epidemic of AIDS and its related illnesses continues to kill millions of people around the world. But nowhere are the numbers as high today as in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular, the nation of South Africa...
In the latest of the “Pink” events marking October as National Breast Cancer Awareness month, members of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation put pink casts on patients last Friday. Here, 13-year old Jerrell Brodie...
A study by Yale School of Medicine researchers reveals that the illnesses and injuries that can restrict the activity of older adults or land them in the hospital are linked to worsening functional ability, especially among those who are physically frail...
Young, overweight women are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors and are at significantly higher risk for sexually transmitted infections than their more slender peers, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The paper is...
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a strange-looking object that baffled professional astronomers. Two...
Children as young as age 2 are seeing more fast food ads than ever before, and restaurants rarely offer parents the healthy kids’ meal choices, according to a new study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The new evaluation, the most...
More than two dozen Yale scientists mingled this weekend with nearly 600 science journalists in New Haven during ScienceWriters2010, the combined annual meeting of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW) and the Council for the Advancement of...
A new nationwide study to determine whether there are gender differences in how female and male military combat veterans readjust to civilian life – one of the first empirical studies of its kind – has begun, thanks to a $2.2 million grant from the U.S....
Following the launch of New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program for public school students, the City’s long-time chief executive, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., will come to the University as a Chubb Fellow on November 16 and 17 to share...
A new study by the Yale School of Public Health finds that excessive weight gain during pregnancy and inadequate postpartum weight loss are particularly prevalent among low-income, ethnic minority women. The study appears online in the journal American...