Scholars and grass-roots activists from more than 15 countries will gather at Yale University, Oct. 8-10, to examine how policy makers have used cost-benefit analysis to justify controversial development projects and environmental decisions. The...
Princeton University Professor of Philosophy Bas van Fraassen will deliver the Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale this fall. The talks, collectively called “The Empirical Stance,” will take place on Oct. 19, 21, 26 and 28, at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of...
New York State Governor George Pataki will speak at Yale as the next Chubb Fellow on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Pataki will speak on “The Role of Government in America’s Post-Industrial...
Women with cancer-causing genes who choose lumpectomy and radiation therapy appear to have an increased risk of getting a second tumor in the treated breast five to 10 years after treatment, a Yale study finds. The results of this 14-year study,...
A drug that may protect the eye from damage caused by glaucoma, which is one of the leading causes of blindness around the world, soon will be administered at Yale Medical School in a clinical trial. M. Bruce Shields, M.D., chairman of the Department of...
The Tower One/Tower East housing complex and Yale School of Nursing are creating a program that will enable residents to stay healthier and protect their rights and well-being as they move through an increasingly complex health care system. Supported by...
In order to promote favorable living conditions once it invades a cell, the salmonella bacteria injects its host cell with a protein called SptP, a Yale study finds. “These findings bring us closer to understanding the complex mechanisms by which...
A Yale research team has found that repeated use of cocaine causes changes in the brain that persist long after the drug is no longer used. “There have been no adequately effective treatments for cocaine addiction because we know very little about...
Six new laboratories for spinal cord research by Yale scientists will be dedicated Sept. 27 at the Neuroscience and Regeneration Research Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven. The Phil N. Allen and Mayreta V. Allen Laboratories...
A reduction in mental health services at a large Connecticut corporation triggered an increase in medical care use and sick leave, costing the company more money rather than less, according to a Yale study. The results support the long-held belief...
