The National Center for Research Resources/National Institutes of Health awarded Yale University School of Medicine a $6.1 million grant to develop the Yale Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program (K12) Award under the direction of Sharon K. Inouye, M...
Universities are in a unique position to draft licensing and patent strategies for development of life-saving medicines and technologies that benefit low-and middle-income countries, according to an editorial by faculty and students working at the Yale...
Although caregivers are often called upon to make decisions on behalf of seriously ill patients, Yale researchers have found that their decisions may not accurately reflect patients’ wishes. Patients are much more concerned about treatment outcomes -...
International researchers, medical practitioners, policy makers and others who have been on the “frontlines” of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic will share their experiences in a workshop held Sept. 19 to 21 at Yale University....
Yale researcher M. Marc Abreu, M.D., has identified an area of the brain he calls the brain temperature tunnel, which transmits brain temperature to an area of skin and has the potential to prevent death from heat stroke and hypothermia, and detect...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation has created a $2 million endowment to help advance cutting-edge medical research at Yale School of Medicine. Through this new program, called the Bayer Endowment for Scholars in Medicine and Management, a fellowship...
In the most recent large national study of heart failure care, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that elderly black patients hospitalized for heart failure received similar quality of care as white patients and had higher survival rates than...
Governor John Rowland has announced the nomination of Linda Spoonster Schwartz, currently a research scientist at Yale School of Nursing (YSN) working on the “Vietnam Nurses Health Study,” as the next commissioner of the Connecticut Department of...
A study by Yale University researchers provides preliminary evidence that there may be more than twice as many genes in the human genome than previously predicted. Using an advanced genomic technique, researchers looked for all the genes on human...
Charles J. Lockwood, M.D., the Anita O’Keefe Young Professor of Women’s Health and chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Margaret K. Hostetter, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics, will...