The Yale University School of Nursing has opened an Office of Research and Policy, marking the school’s enhanced emphasis on research to complement its long-standing tradition of clinical excellence. The Office is located in the School of Nursing...
The Yale School of Nursing will host an open house for prospective doctoral students on Saturday, Nov.7., from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 100 Church St. South. The program chair, Ruth McCorkle, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., will offer an overview of YSN’s Doctor of...
Yale University announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the United States Attorney for Connecticut and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General that ends an investigation of the handling of...
A team of Yale researchers has found that teaching coping skills to adolescents with diabetes significantly improves their metabolic control over the disease as well as their overall quality of life. The study has won the Applied Nursing Research Award...
Many menopausal women fear the ill effects of prescription estrogen. Physicians routinely prescribe the hormone for their patients, but fewer than half fill the prescriptions, says Yale researcher Susan Cohen. Within a year, only 20 percent of the...
The recent announcement that the drug tamoxifen may prevent breast cancer draws into sharper focus the social and ethical concerns surrounding genetic testing to screen for breast cancer risk, according to Yale University researcher Jeannie Pasacreta....
A study released by researchers at Yale and Pace universities on the way managed care organizations MCOs employ nurse practitioners reveals a surprising inconsistency. Even though 82 percent of the MCO executives surveyed said that the use of nurse...
Gail D’Eramo Melkus is fighting a vicious and subtle epidemic. Melkus, an associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing, studies diabetes in African-American women along with co-investigator Geralyn Spollett, assistant professor. Their work is...
Yale University has received a five-year, $4.3 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pursue advanced research in public health and health care. The grant will support Yale’s continued participation in the Foundation’s Scholars in...
Your child begins to cough and sneeze over the weekend. If you bring her to the daycare center on Monday morning, will she infect the other children? Chicken pox, strep, ear infections, head lice, diarrhea… the miseries of childhood can be passed from...