President Richard C. Levin announced today that David A. Kessler, the Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will become dean of the Yale University School of Medicine, effective July 1, 1997. Dr. Kessler is a graduate of the Harvard...
Members of the print and electronic media are invited to attend a Yale community meeting at 2 p.m. today, Thursday, Feb. 13, at which Yale President Richard C. Levin will announce a major appointment of interest to the Yale and New Haven-area...
87 percent of people ages 12 to 34 feel invulnerable to AIDS virus; more than half say media messages on health risks are inadequate New Haven, CT – Nearly 9 out of 10 young people (87 percent) believe they are invulnerable to getting the AIDS virus,...
New Haven, CT The average carpool parent is 40 years old and shuttles three children. The most frequent destination is school, followed by sports, music lessons and scouts, in that order. Carpool parents also do a lot of waiting, spending an average...
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – HHS – has given the Yale School of Medicine a clean bill of health regarding its Medicare billing practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The School of Medicine was...
The Yale Psychological Services Clinic – YPSC, which is well-known in the New Haven area as a provider of reasonably priced psychotherapy, recently announced an expansion of its services to include obsessive-compulsive disorder, social phobia,...
American child care regulations are mediocre or poor in every state because state legislators are setting standards far too low, thus posing a threat to children’s development. That is the finding of a Yale University study, which joins a spate of...
Several of Connecticut’s elected representatives will be on hand Monday to participate in an announcement about a major federal grant received by Yale University to create and support a Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS. The mission of the...
Yale University biologists for the first time have succeeded in preventing the expression of genes that make bacteria resistant to two widely used antibiotics – chloramphenicol and ampicillin – thus restoring the bacteria’s sensitivity to the antibiotics...
Yale University and Innovir Laboratories Inc. of New York City recently announced they have been granted additional broad patent rights for a promising technology for treating and preventing a number of diseases, including hepatitis. The technology,...