Yale School of Medicine professor Dr. Marcella Nunez Smith has been awarded a multi-million dollar federal grant to study the risk factors and prevalence of heart disease, cancer and diabetes in the eastern Caribbean.The grant, from the National Institute...
Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) will offer a new degree: the Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.).“Not only is the D.N.P. program essential to align YSN’s academic initiatives with national trends and growing...
In Regina de Luna’s home country of the Philippines, malaria is the eighth leading cause of death, a statistic that the rising Yale senior finds impossible to ignore.But what has made an even greater impression on de Luna is seeing people suffering from...
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases in the United States. To mark the occasion, Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) asked nearly 50 individuals — including doctors, researchers, health workers and...
Addictive eating behavior and substance dependence have similar patterns of brain activity, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. The study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to link...