It has been 12 years, since the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) issued its first “Clinical Practice Guideline –Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.”Yale psychiatrist Stephanie O’Malley played a key role in developing the 2008 guidelines scheduled to be...
Ronald J. Vender, M.D., a nationally recognized gastroenterologist, has been named chief medical officer (CMO) of the Yale Medical Group (YMG), the physician practice of Yale University faculty. He has also been named associate dean for clinical affairs...
Aydin Arici Women with fibroids and endometriosis facing the possibility of hysterectomy may now choose less invasive treatment options to preserve fertility, according to Yale professor Aydin Arici, M.D.,...
Women under the age of 55 who have suffered a heart attack did not quickly seek treatment for a variety of reasons, including their uncertainty about whether non-traditional symptoms such as fatigue, indigestion, and shoulder and neck pain actually signal...
Drug users can be taught to identify and quickly respond to overdoses of heroin or other opioids as effectively as medical experts, a Yale University study suggests.The study supports efforts of some drug counselors, physicians and public health experts...
Paul T. Anastas, Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry, Yale was honored on May 4 by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents with their Leadership in Science award for founding the field of “Green Chemistry.”Known as “The Father of Green...
Peter Wilcox Jones, the James E. English Professor of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contributions in original research.He is among the 72 new...
Joan Steitz of Yale University — a pioneer in the study of RNA — is one of the first two women scientists to be named recipients of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, America’s largest prize in medicine. She will share...
Research by Yale scientists shows that males and females have essentially unisex brains — at least in flies — according to a recent report in Cell designed to identify factors that are responsible for sex differences in behavior.The researchers showed...
Yale President Richard C. Levin and City Chief Administrator Robert Smuts, representing New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr., presented 13 Seton Elm-Ivy Awards at a ceremony on April 30 in the Presidents Room at Yale University.The awards were established...