In Regina de Luna’s home country of the Philippines, malaria is the eighth leading cause of death, a statistic that the rising Yale senior finds impossible to ignore.But what has made an even greater impression on de Luna is seeing people suffering from...
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases in the United States. To mark the occasion, Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) asked nearly 50 individuals — including doctors, researchers, health workers and...
Addictive eating behavior and substance dependence have similar patterns of brain activity, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. The study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to link...
As the life expectancy of Americans increases, learning how to prevent or delay age-related physical disability has become a major health priority.Yale is one of eight centers in the country that will study whether physical activity and other lifestyle...
An institute named for Yale psychologist and pediatrian Dr. Arnold Gesell (1880-1961), a pioneer in the field of child development, will mark its 60th anniversary.The Gesell Institute of Human Development is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping...
“I’m not confused about who I am or where I came from,” said Yale faculty member Nadia L. Ward as she accepted the Thurgood Marshall Community Service Award this spring.“My grandfather was a coal miner with a 4th-grade education and my mother remembers...
Dr. David M. Walker, instructor in pediatric emergency medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, has been named a 2010-2011 Fulbright Scholar.Walker will work at the pediatric emergency service of the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi,...
For some time after Yale University purchased the 136 acres of office buildings, streams and woodlands that comprised the former Bayer Pharmaceutical complex in 2007, the primary occupants of West Campus were turkey, geese, deer and coyotes.That is no...
Dr. Kristaps J. Keggi, recently named the inaugural Elihu Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, is an internationally renowned expert in hip and knee replacement surgery.In the 1970s, Keggi pioneered the anterior approach to total hip...
Cutting-edge genomic technologies such as high-throughput DNA sequencing — will be the focus of the next Dean’s Workshop at the School of Medicine.The event will take place on Friday, May 21, at 1:30 p.m. in the Anlyan Center auditorium, 300 Cedar St....