The Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) will host a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Master Class on minority health on January 17, 2000, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the school’s 100 Church Street South campus. The class will be open to undergraduates...
Karina Danvers, a Yale School of Nursing (YSN) community outreach worker who has AIDS, recently received a Commissioner’s AIDS Leadership Award from the Connecticut Department of Public Health. Danvers was cited for her volunteer work on a project to...
Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) will convene a Senate hearing at Fairfield University to address the public health threat posed by the West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses. Durland Fish, a Yale expert on insect-borne diseases, will be a...
A treatment for autistic children that was touted by the media and anxious parents as a wonder drug has been shown to have no effect, highlighting the need for controlled studies, according to a Yale psychiatrist. The drug secretin did no better at...
Yale researchers have received a $1.5 million grant to develop a computer system that will analyze cancer cells and compare them against thousands of other specimens. The grant awarded to the Center for Medical Informatics will be used to analyze two...
A new screening test that could significantly improve the detection of fetal Down syndrome will be tested in a national clinical trial by Yale researchers beginning in January. The modified urine pregnancy test, hyperglycosylated hCG (HhCG), was...
A Yale study reveals that B cells play a leading role in promoting the development of unique cells that serve as gatekeepers for disease in the gastrointestinal area. B cells once were thought to function mainly as sources of serum antibody and as...
Whether or not a woman’s ovaries are removed during hysterectomy depends partly on where she lives and her surgeon’s experience, according to a Yale School of Medicine study. Removal of healthy ovaries-oophorectomy-is believed to be the most effective...
Yale scientists will initiate cutting edge women’s health research with new grants from the Ethel F. Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Program at Yale. This year’s recipients of Donaghue Women’s Health Investigator Awards include six Yale faculty...
Herbert S. Chase, M.D., will become Deputy Dean for Education at the Yale School of Medicine in July 2000, Dean David Kessler has announced. Chase succeeds Robert H. Gifford, M.D., who has held the position since 1998. He was Associate Dean for...
