Overweight children who are stigmatized by peers and their parents and teachers sustain profound and potentially lasting harm, according to a paper by scientists from Yale and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa. “Weight-based discrimination is as...
In what is believed to be the first meeting of its kind, Yale University is convening nearly 40 experts on nutrition, obesity, and addiction tonight and Tuesday to discuss the controversial topic of food and addiction. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the...
Leading researchers in Switzerland, France, Mexico, and at Yale School of Medicine, are pooling efforts under a five-year, $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to pinpoint the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. Hypertension affects more than...
Kristaps Juris Keggi, M.D., an international pioneer in the field of joint replacement, has joined Yale School of Medicine as clinical professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.Keggi also will direct the newly created Joint Replacement Center at Yale-...