Three Yale School of Medicine faculty—Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., and Mary F. Tinetti, M.D.—have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, it was announced this week.Members are elected...
The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) will lead an initiative to develop a blueprint for improving the nation’s public programs with support from a $400,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.Paul Cleary, dean of YSPH, will convene the nation...
Kathleen Belanger The Yale School of Public Health has received a $15 million grant to take part in a national study that will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to understand factors that...
Carolyn M. Mazure Carolyn M. Mazure has received the 2007 Marion Spencer Fay Award, which honors a distinguished woman physician or scientist whose national leadership has had a major impact on research and...
If one spouse exercises, quits smoking, stops drinking alcohol, receives a flu shot, or undergoes a cholesterol screening, the other spouse is more likely to do the same, according to a new study in Health Services Research...
Yale School of Medicine on October 5 will celebrate the opening of a new four-story building on Amistad Street to house medical researchers working on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and the biology and uses of stem cells.“This laboratory building will...
Derek Toomre Derek Toomre, assistant professor of cell biology at Yale School of Medicine, has received a $2.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award to develop optical...
Yale researchers have provided new insight into how mutations in a single gene may cause mental retardation and kidney problems in Lowe syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects only boys.Lowe syndrome causes cataracts, mental retardation, and a...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed a $7 million grant to Yale School of Medicine to speed research discoveries from the laboratory to the clinic for individuals at risk for becoming alcoholic, or for patients who already suffer from...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Yale School of Medicine $23.4 million to study the interactive effects of stress and self-control on tobacco smoking, excessive drinking, and overeating, it was announced today.Yale was one of nine...