Nathan Myhrvold, Ph.D., chief technology officer and member of the Executive Committee at Microsoft Corp., will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. His talk, titled “The Future of Software,” will be presented Thursday, Oct...
Two Yale School of Medicine faculty members – Eric J. Nestler, M.D., Ph.D., and Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D. – have been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM). Chosen for their major contributions to health and medicine, they will devote a...
The fourth annual series of educational programs designed for the public and sponsored by the Yale School of Medicine will focus on “What’s In Your Medicine Cabinet?” Offered on five consecutive Mondays beginning Nov. 2, the series will explain popular...
Warfarin, an inexpensive blood thinner used to diminish the risk of additional strokes in elderly stroke patients, is used in only half of eligible patients, according to an article in the Oct. 26 issue of the AMA’s Archives of Internal Medicine....
The following talks at Yale University the week of Oct. 19-25 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Peace Corps director will be guest at master’s tea Mark D. Gearan, director of the Peace Corps, will be the featured guest at a...
Teams from Connecticut and New York high schools will compete Saturday, Oct.. 17, in the Yale Physics Olympics. The event, which will be held at Sloane Physics Laboratory, 217 Prospect St., is designed to stimulate interest in science and to provide...
Electrical engineering professor Tso-Ping Ma uses the creation of “Post-Its” as an analogy for the prize-winning invention of his graduate student Jin-Ping Han. Years ago, researchers at 3-M Corp. were trying to concoct the stickiest glue, but came up...
Among heart attack patients younger than age 75, women were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital following a heart attack as men, according to a Yale study published in the Oct 12 issue of the AMA’s Archives of Internal Medicine. Conversely,...
A Yale University study appearing in the October issue of The Journal of Reproductive Medicine reported that estrogen-androgen therapy improved sexual sensation and desire in post-menopausal women who were dissatisfied with estrogen alone. “These...
The Yale School of Medicine’s department of psychiatry will celebrate 50 years of achievement on Friday, Oct. 23, with a one-day symposium titled “A Half Century of Excellence: Yale Psychiatry from 1948 to 1998.” The symposium will highlight the major...
