Yale scientists and colleagues at Boston University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut have discovered genetic variants that increase the risk of paranoia in cocaine addicts and also seem to affect risk for cocaine dependence itself,...
Scientists used to think most of the exchange of information between cells was conducted at the surface, where cell receptors receive signals from other cells. Now Yale researchers report in the March 20 issue of the journal Cell how a switching station...
More prominent displays may be needed to help increase consumer awareness of nutritional information in fast food restaurants, according to an observational study from Yale University that appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health....
Nearly $7 million in combined grants have been awarded to a researcher at the Yale School of Public Health to examine the effects of exercise on two types of cancer unique to women.Melinda L. Irwin, Ph.D., associate professor in the division of Chronic...
In a review and analysis of tobacco and food industry practices, leading researchers from Yale University and the University of Michigan pinpoint similarities in strategies used across both industries.This research, which appears in the March issue of...
With obesity reaching epidemic proportions in the United States, new research has found that an individual’s personal beliefs about the causes of weight problems are a reliable indicator of whether he or she will support public policies designed to combat...
Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical...
Yale University researchers received almost $4 million from the state of Connecticut to study ways human embryonic stem cells can be used to treat ailments as diverse as spinal cord injuries, cancer and mental retardation. Five researchers received grants...
Citing research that shows drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is helping fuel the obesity epidemic, Yale University’s Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H, argue for taxing sugared beverages in the April...
A single crafty protein allows the deadly bacterium Salmonella enterica to both invade cells lining the intestine and hijack cellular functions to avoid destruction, Yale researchers report in the April 15 issue of the journal Cell.This evolutionary...