Yale University continues its year-long Tercentennial celebration with a special Democratic Vistas Forum titled “Reinventing the Melting Pot,” in collaboration with the Manhattan Institute, on March 23 from 1 to 6 p.m. in the Yale Law School Auditorium...
Yale researchers will discuss advances in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness at Yale School of Medicine on Saturday, March 31 during Neuroscience 2001: The Neurobiology of Recovery. “The presentations are directed at a lay audience...
In a two-part study, researchers at Yale have found that 89 percent of women are willing to switch from gynecologists who do not support their decision to have fibroids treated using Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive treatment...
Siblings who are addicted to cocaine and opioids, among them morphine, codeine and heroin, are being recruited for Yale University-led studies to determine the locations of genes that increase risk for cocaine, opioid and tobacco addictions. The study...
The vaccine for chickenpox, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995, is highly effective in preventing chickenpox or minimizing the severity of the disease in children, according to a study by researchers at Yale. “We know from these...
The Yale Faculty Practice has formally changed its name to the “Yale Medical Group,” after considering a variety of factors, including a change in the function, governance and purpose of the organization. “In the past several years, the faculty practice...
A Yale University professor, Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., has received an award of $300,000 to support his research into the extent to which axons can rearrange themselves and recover after injuries to the nervous system. The Memory and Brain Disorders...
Scientist and government officials will speak at Yale University School of Medicine April 3 during the Fourth Annual Genaissance Pharmacogenetics and Medicine Lectures. The purpose of the meeting is to provide an update on the scientific, medical,...
The latest advances in treatments for sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy and insomnia will be discussed at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Sleep Society on March 30-31 at the Omni New Haven Hotel, 155 Temple St. The meeting is...
Women who are HIV-positive and depressed are twice as likely to die as women who are HIV-positive but experiencing limited or no depressive symptoms, a study by a Yale researcher shows. The findings were published in the March 21 issue of the Journal of...
