Yale University is hosting a seminar March 17 on conducting research into Latino health issues, such as depression, substance abuse, AIDS and access to health care. The seminar is one of a series that supplements a five-year study by Kathleen Merikangas...
Forced and voluntary sterilization in the United States was more closely allied to the policies of Nazi Germany than previously believed, a Yale study shows. The study by Andre Sofair, M.D., and Lauris Kaldjian, M.D., both assistant clinical professors...
Doctors who train for a time in underdeveloped areas are more likely, as they pursue their careers, to care for underserved patients, a Yale study shows. Anu Gupta, a third-year resident who conducted the survey, said doctors who participated in Yale...
The Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care at the Yale School of Nursing will honor the founders of the American hospice movement at its annual convocation on February 15 at 4 p.m. at the Yale School of Nursing. The keynote speaker will be Cindy...
Yale Professor Edward Zigler, who is credited with conceiving programs and policies such as Head Start and family leave, has been awarded a $250,000 gift from the Heinz Family Foundation. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology and of the Yale Child...
A new light sensitive drug used to treat the most severe form of macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50, is being tested at Yale School of Medicine. The drug, verteporfin, is expected to receive approval by the U...
Absence of a gene linked to a potentially fatal kidney disease causes the kidney, pancreas and heart to develop abnormally, Yale researchers say. The significance of these findings, as well as related discoveries in the same report, said Stefan Somlo, M...
The United States embargo against Cuba has contributed to several public health catastrophes, among them an epidemic of blindness due to a dramatic decrease in the supply of nutrients, a Yale physician says. There also have been epidemics of infants...
U. S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala has appointed Yale School of Nursing Associate Dean Margaret Grey, DrPH, PNP, FAAN, to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research. The council determines how federal dollars for...
Yale researchers, for the first time, have shown that a particular gene can cause insulin-dependent, or Type I, diabetes. The discovery was made when the researchers induced spontaneous diabetes by injecting an animal model with DQ8, a human gene long...