For Jessie Papagoda of East Haven, Connecticut, the opening of Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven changed everything.Until last October, Jessie and all cancer patients at Yale had to spend much of their day traveling between several buildings on the...
Children with asthma are more likely to develop a range of health and social problems as they enter into adulthood, new research by the Yale School of Public Health has found. The study is published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Health Economics...
National Women’s Health Week is May 9-15. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the goal of this nationwide initiative is to empower women to make their health a top priority and encourage them to take simple steps for a longer,...
Stem cells derived from the endometrium (uterine lining) and transplanted into the brains of laboratory mice with Parkinson’s disease appear to restore functioning of brain cells damaged by the disease, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine...
Through the efforts of the Yale Office of Cooperative Research, and with the support of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI), Yale University has spun out a medical device company to commercialize a new device for the rapidly growing field of...
Art Place, a nonprofit arts organization founded and supported by Yale Medical Group, will open its 16th show with a reception on May 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Yale Physicians Building, 800 Howard Ave.The exhibition features new work by six regional...
Gender, marital status and children appear to play a powerful role in influencing the careers of surgical residents, according to a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The study appears in the May issue of Archives of Surgery, a...
Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues have used a non-medication behavioral intervention to reduce chronic tics in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome (TS).The team found that a specialized form of behavior therapy called...
Prion proteins appear to be the key culprit in the loss of memory in mice with brains riddled with plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Yale scientists report.The findings reported in the Journal of Neuroscience show that common cellular prion...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to select sperm with the highest DNA integrity in a bid to improve male fertility. The method is comparable to that of the egg’s natural selection abilities, according to the study published...