Yale School of Medicine is hosting its 1st annual Yale Integrative Medicine Scientific Symposium April 2 to explore the best of conventional and complementary/alternative medicine.The symposium is open to the public and includes continuing medical...
Hugh S. Taylor The injection of uterine stem cells trigger growth of new brain cells in mice with Parkinson’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in an abstract presented at the 2008 Society...
Hugh S. Taylor Researchers at Yale School of Medicine now have a clearer understanding of why synthetic estrogens such as those found in many widely-used plastics have a detrimental effect on a developing...
Hugh S. Taylor Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that in-utero exposure to the hormone grhelin, a molecule that controls appetite and hunger and nutrition, can result in decreased fertility...
A small RNA molecule, known as let-7 microRNA (miRNA), substantially reduced cancer growth in multiple mouse models of lung cancer, according to work by researchers at Yale University and Asuragen, Inc., published in the journal Cell Cycle...
Yale Cancer Center and the Connecticut Challenge recently announced $125,000 in pilot funding to support cancer survivorship research at Yale. The funding will support four cancer researchers conducting innovative studies into the health-related issues...
Discrimination against overweight people—particularly women—is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.“These results show the need to treat weight discrimination as a...
The Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Cancer Partnership have awarded Yale Cancer Center a $745,288 grant to launch a statewide clinical trials network to promote innovative cancer research.The grant is for the development of a...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau will receive the annual Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from Yale School of Medicine April 5 for his outstanding portrayal of the readjustment issues faced by soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Trudeau, a Yale...
Smelling food activates different brain areas than consuming it, according to a Yale University study published in Neuron that shows definitively what researchers have long suspected.“We believe that these findings add to our understanding of...