The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) has received a five-year, $13-million continuation award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to examine the impact of aging and alcohol use among those with and without chronic HIV...
New Haven, Conn. — Three-dimensional diagnostic images of the heart analyzed at the bedside may be possible in the future thanks to a five-year $7.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) bioengineering research partnership (BRP) grant to a team of...
Jack van Hoff, M.D. To further research on childhood cancer, the St. Baldrick’s Foundation has awarded $25,000 to the Yale School of Medicine for pediatric oncology research programs.The St. Baldrick’s...
Kyeen Mesesan Even modest programs advocating adult male circumcision can substantially prevent HIV infections and should be implemented immediately, researchers at Yale School of Medicine reported recently...
For minority students, simply completing a writing assignment designed to affirm a positive identity and sense of “self integrity” near the beginning of the school year raised their school performance and reduced the racial achievement gap by 40 percent,...
Thomas Gill, M.D. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that persistent bathing disability among the elderly can increase the risk of long-term nursing home admission by 77 percent, but interventions aimed at prevention and...
Douglas L. Rothman Yale will receive a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to fund the purchase of a 7-Tesla human magnetic resonance (MR) system that will facilitate...
Farnoosh Hashemian (right) and Farahnaz Falahati (left) with Iranian children Iranian civilians exposed to high-intensity warfare and chemical weapons are experiencing significantly higher levels of psychological distress compared to...
Involuntary job loss near retirement more than doubles the risk of heart attack and stroke, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a major national study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The results are based on 10-year...
Twenty-three fellows chosen by the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and Yale University Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative (EHMI) to help improve the hospital management system in Ethiopia will begin orientation June 20-24 at Yale and continue...
