The Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University has launched a new website aimed at helping parents navigate through the complex issues of school food. The new website, Rudd SPARK — Supporting Parent Advocates with Resources and Knowledge...
A center to train the public health workforce in Connecticut and Rhode Island will be established at the Yale School of Public Health, thanks to a new $2.6 million federal grant. The center will focus on helping workers learn the best ways to address...
A $25,000 pilot award from the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) to develop a device that enables surgery to be performed with a single or even no external incision has been leveraged into nearly a million dollars in funding. The device, based...
If the brain goes hungry, Twinkies look a lot better, a study led by researchers at Yale University and the University of Southern California has found.Brain imaging scans show that when glucose levels drop, an area of the brain known to regulate emotions...
Aging HIV patients who also battle substance abuse and depression will benefit from a five-year $11,250,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to The Consortium to improve OutcoMes in hiv/AIDS, Alcohol, Aging, and multi-...
Yale School of Public Health researchers in collaboration with Russian scientists have discovered a new tick-borne bacterium that might be causing disease in the United States and elsewhere. Their findings appear in the journal Emerging Infectious...
When Nicole Gentili, a licensed clinical social worker, joined the Yale Child Study Center’s practice in Madison as director in July, she brought years of experience in individual, group and family therapy, psychosocial assessment and parenting support....
Women who discontinue using antidepressants during pregnancy do not appear to have greater risk of having a depressive episode during and after term than those who continue using medications, a new Yale University study shows.The new study published...
A research team from Yale and the University of Connecticut has found that the cooling effect of menthol may actually cause people to smoke more and become addicted to cigarettes because it reduces the protective respiratory response to irritants in...
Yale researchers have discovered the source of signals that trigger hair growth, an insight that may lead to new treatments for baldness.The researchers identified stem cells within the skin’s fatty layer and showed that molecular signals from these cells...