Elisha Atkins, M.D., professor emeritus of internal medicine/infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine, and an expert in the mechanism and biological importance of fever, died April 22 at age 84 in Belmont, Massachusetts. Atkins’s research on the...
Researchers at Yale, in collaboration with NIH researchers, have identified a specific protein molecule that is used by the immune system for detection of parasitic infections, leading the way for development of future vaccines to combat these infections...
Black cohosh, an herb widely used by breast cancer patients to alleviate hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms, may alter the way that cells respond to drugs commonly used to treat breast cancer, according to a Yale School of Medicine study published...
The scientists commemorated are thermodynamicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, geneticist Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann, and physicist Richard Feynman.(Full Size Image) A First Day of Issue ceremony for a series of stamps honoring...
Using X–ray crystallography, researchers at Yale have “seen” the structural basis for antibiotic resistance to common pathogenic bacteria, facilitating design of a new class of antibiotic drugs, according to an article in Cell. In recent years, common...
Alvin Novick. (Photo by John Curtis.)(Full Size Image) Alvin Novick, 79, physician, biologist, Yale University professor, and AIDS community leader, died on April 10, 2005 in New Haven. He had prostate cancer. Professor Novick taught biology at...
Researchers at Yale Cancer Center working on an innovative treatment for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) have received one of two grants from the Connecticut Department of Public Health resulting from Tobacco Master Settlement Funds that allocated...
The Adopt–A–Doc Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine has launched a pilot project called Building Medical Homes to promote the care and services pediatric patients receive. Funded in 2001 by the Community Foundation for...
Yale School of Medicine’s Pediatric Asthma Care Team will provide asthma screenings for the community at Dave McDermott Auto Group, 55 Main St., East Haven on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. In honor of World Asthma Day (May 3), physicians and...
A possible link between lack of sleep (insomnia) and obesity has been traced to hypocretin/orexin cells in the hypothalamus region of the brain that are easily excited and sensitive to stress, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the April issue...
