Throughout the yearlong debate on health care reform, the physician’s voice has largely been unheard. But now doctors have an opportunity to shape how reform efforts will translate for patients and society, maintains Cary Gross, M.D., associate professor...
Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-CA) will present the Sybil Palmer Bellos Lecture on Monday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. at Yale University School of Nursing (YSN), 100 Church Street South.Congresswoman Capps’s talk is titled “Nurses Make the Best Advocates.” She...
A team of leading historians and public health professionals from the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and Rwanda are urging that grand strategy - a comprehensive plan of action to achieve large ends with limited means - be incorporated into...
Yale Cancer Center scientists have discovered that OCT4, a protein critical in determining the fate of certain germ-cell tumors, is commonly detected and targeted by the immune system in healthy individuals. Their findings, published in the Proceedings of...
The molecular caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect humans against cancer and premature cellular aging show a surprising inability to protect themselves against ultraviolet radiation, a new Yale School of Medicine study has found.Telomeres—the...
Most patients and research subjects believe that the financial ties their clinicians and researchers have with private companies should be disclosed, according to findings published in Archives of Internal Medicine by researchers at Yale School of...
Scientists for the first time have discovered a way to predict whether women with the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer — ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)— are at risk of developing more invasive tumors in later life. The study appears online...
Depression among economically disadvantaged mothers lasts well beyond the postpartum period, suggests a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. The study also finds that symptoms could improve with brief treatment.The results will be...
The popular iPhone now offers a Lyme disease “app” that allows users to better protect themselves against the most prevalent insect-borne disease in the United States.Faculty and students at the Yale School of Public Health combined research data with...
A single, very unusual family with Tourette syndrome (TS) has led Yale School of Medicine researchers to identify a rare mutation in a gene that is required to produce histamine. The finding provides a new framework to understand many years of data on the...