Before flying off the handle the next time someone cuts you off in traffic, consider the latest research from Yale School of Medicine researchers that links changes brought on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias and sudden cardiac...
After an extensive national search, Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD, has been named director of Yale Cancer Center and physician-in-chief of the new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, which will open in October 2009. His appointment is effective April 1,...
Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
In a study that gives insight into the depth of stigmatization against overweight and obese people, a Yale University-led team of researchers found weight bias even among those studying to be dieticians. The research appears in the March issue of the...
A popular smoking cessation drug dramatically reduced the amount a heavy drinker will consume, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found. Heavy-drinking smokers in a laboratory setting were much less likely to drink after taking the drug varenicline...
The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses—microscopic connections between brain cells—in the brain’s hippocampal region, researchers at Yale...
Yale University and the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY, have announced the establishment of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy — a collaboration designed to increase the range, depth...
Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a lack of coordination, developmental delay and hearing loss.The findings, published this week in...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced today that she would undergo chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer. In a statement released by the court, the 76-year-old Ginsburg called the chemotherapy “precautionary” following surgery last month...
Top Yale scientists will offer their views of the rapidly evolving world of stem cell research at StemConn 09, Connecticut’s International Stem Cell Research Symposium, March 23-24 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.The conference will feature experts who can...