Barbara Ehrlich Peripheral pain, a side effect of the highly effective cancer drug paclitaxel, appears to be caused when the drug binds to a protein and initiates improper calcium signaling, a Yale School...
A research paper co-authored by Jennifer Prah Ruger, assistant professor of Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, and Daniel Kress, senior program officer of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,...
Erol Fikrig Blocking a tick protein that protects the Lyme disease bacteria as it moves from mice back to the tick that infected them might reduce incidences of the illness among humans, a Yale School of...
The pledge Wednesday by a group of major food companies to market only healthy foods to children may have little effect on the diet of the nation’s children, says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity....
Colors show calcium levels in brain cells in experiments with cytomegalovirus infection. A common brain virus that is usually harmless in adults but can be devastating in early development causes...
Overweight children who are stigmatized by peers and their parents and teachers sustain profound and potentially lasting harm, according to a paper by scientists from Yale and the University of Hawaii at Manatoa. “Weight-based discrimination is as...
In what is believed to be the first meeting of its kind, Yale University is convening nearly 40 experts on nutrition, obesity, and addiction tonight and Tuesday to discuss the controversial topic of food and addiction. Nora Volkow, M.D., director of the...
Leading researchers in Switzerland, France, Mexico, and at Yale School of Medicine, are pooling efforts under a five-year, $6 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to pinpoint the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. Hypertension affects more than...
Kristaps Juris Keggi, M.D., an international pioneer in the field of joint replacement, has joined Yale School of Medicine as clinical professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation.Keggi also will direct the newly created Joint Replacement Center at Yale-...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Epidemiology & Public Health recently traveled to Ethiopia to award healthcare managers and workers with a Yale certificate for completing a year-long program that featured extensive training and...