Sobering childhood obesity rates in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Joshua Cox, who helped organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner, which takes place on Saturday, December 6. The free event, which aims to educate...
A smile may be infectious, but are obesity, smoking and even a headache?Published research has suggested that certain health outcomes are “contagious” in close social networks — that, for instance, people who kick the smoking habit are likely to...
Dr. Samuel Ritvo, a leader in psychoanalysis and child psychiatry who was a faculty member for nearly six decades at the Yale Child Study Center, died on Dec. 3 at age 91.Ritvo’s research interests included longitudinal studies of child development,...
Dr. Luigi Mastroianni, an internationally recognized pioneer in reproductive biology who began some of his groundbreaking research while at Yale, died on Nov. 25 at the age of 83.Mastroianni was the William Goodell Emeritus Professor and chair of the...