The Yale/Hartford Center of Excellence (CoE) in Aging has received renewed funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation to increase the amount of research, education and leadership in aging issues within medical specialties. The CoE, led by Mary E....
HistoRx, Inc., a bioscience company offering novel digital technologies for in situ diagnostics developed at Yale School of Medicine, has located its operations at 25 Science Park in New Haven. Their technology, called AQUA(tm) (Automated Quantitative...
Jeffrey S. Schechner, M.D., associate professor of dermatology at Yale School of Medicine, who was instrumental in advancing research on blood vessels in the skin and human skin grafting, died on September 7 in New Haven at age 39. Schechner, who also...
Researchers in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at the Yale School of Medicine have been awarded a four year, $1.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study the association between mammographic breast density and the...
Treating patients with a drug called aprotinin reduces the risk of stroke by 47 percent in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. The study...
Treatment to lower systolic high blood pressure in older persons is associated with substantial reduction of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, Yale researchers report in the September 1 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association. The...
Yale University is a key member of a nationwide group of medical centers awarded a $17 million grant from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, a division of the National Institutes of Health, for a study of childhood absence (petit...
A genetic mutation related to a more aggressive form of breast cancer occurs four times more often in African American patients than their white counterparts, Yale researchers report in the August 9, 2004 online edition of the journal Cancer. In the...
A research team at Yale has found that blocking a kind of cell death called apoptosis in fibrotic diseases of the lung, also blocks the fibrosis, opening new ways of looking at treatment for lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Published in the...
For the second year in a row, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving has awarded the Yale Child Study Center a $25,000 grant for evaluation of the “Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service” (IICAPS). IICAPS was developed at Yale in...