Concerns over tired doctors leading to mistakes and patient injuries has led to progressively shorter hours for medical residents in the United States and Europe over the past 20 years. But a review in the British Medical Journal shows that reducing hours...
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) and Yale School of Medicine today announced the formation of a multi-year research collaboration focused on the discovery of novel cancer therapies. The research effort will initially span four years with an option...
World-leading cancer expert Roy Herbst, M.D. of Yale Cancer Center is available to speak on the National Institutes of Health Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, embargoed for release until 4:00 PM EDT today.Dr. Herbst is chief of medical...
Faced with the prospect of costly in vitro fertilization (IVF) but with no help from insurance coverage, some infertile couples feel pressure to transfer multiple embryos in an attempt to ensure that the IVF is a success. This can lead to higher rates of...
The U.S. Army Medical Department and the Yale School of Medicine are co-sponsoring a joint educational event on the medical school campus on April 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., featuring tours of a fully functional Deployable Rapid Assembly Shelter (DRASH...
This week, Yale will host more than 2,000 global health professionals, social entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and students for the world’s largest gathering of global health innovators dedicated to delivering quality medical care to underserved populations...
To celebrate its Bicentennial, Yale School of Medicine will host some of the world’s most preeminent scientists in a two-day gathering on April 28-29. The 15 scientists, with seven Nobel laureates among them, will help define the critical issues in health...
The Yale Child Study Center continues its 100th birthday celebration with the second in a series of symposia designed to inform parents, pediatricians and primary care providers about the latest research and clinical developments affecting children.Taking...
The size and shape of the human cerebral cortex, an evolutionary marvel responsible for everything from Shakespeare’s poetry to the atomic bomb, are largely influenced by mutations in a single gene, according to a team of researchers led by the Yale...
Scientists at Yale University and in Grenoble France have succeeded in creating a movie showing the breakup of actin filaments, the thread-like structures inside cells that are crucial to their movement, maintenance and division.Actin filaments are the...