Providing insight into why the influenza virus can lead to dangerous bacterial infections such as bronchitis or pneumonia, a Yale School of Medicine study reveals that the flu causes a systemic suppression of the body’s innate immune response. While...
A Yale School of Medicine study provides new understanding of the mechanisms that underlie how tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVG) work. The paper is published this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Supermarket aisles are enticing young eyeballs with more familiar characters, celebrities, toys and movie giveaways on food packaging than ever, according to a Yale University study. Published in the March 2010 issue of Public Health Nutrition, the study...
Robert I. White, Jr., M.D. of Yale University will travel to Buenos Aires to pave the way for the first center in Latin America to treat a rare but potentially fatal vascular disorder known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). White is...
A new legislative database launched today by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University gives policy makers, journalists, advocates, researchers and concerned citizens a single online destination for current information on government...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were...
A new method of growing arteries could lead to a “biological bypass”—a non-invasive way to treat coronary artery disease—Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.Coronary...
A Yale-led study reveals, for the first time, the process by which a particular genetic mutation causes seizures and ataxia, the neurodegenerative disorder believed to have afflicted Abraham Lincoln. The study appears online in the Early Edition of the...
Yale scientists and researchers now have a comprehensive online tool they can use to share and discuss research projects, data, lab protocols, results, news of clinical trials and advances in clinical care.It is called the YCCI Research Accelerator (RA),...
Yale University is seeking adults between the ages of 70 and 89 to take part in a lifestyle intervention study to determine whether exercise or health education can prevent or delay major mobility disability in older adults.Little is known about whether...