Acute lung injury caused by cell death, high and potentially toxic concentrations of oxygen (hyperoxia), and the resulting excess fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), may be controlled by modulating levels of the angiopoietin2 (Ang2) protein, researchers...
James C. Tsai, M.D. James C. Tsai, M.D., M.B.A., an authority on glaucoma, has been named chair of the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. As chair, Tsai will be...
Susan H. Busch Differential cost-sharing approaches in employee health benefits encourage use of preventive care services while controlling a firm’s overall health-care costs, according to a study published...
The authors of “Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic,” will speak Thursday about that country’s struggle with a disease that has killed more than one million South African men, women, and children. The talk will be at 4:30...
Yale School of Medicine is expanding its Continuing Medical Education program to include online courses for busy physicians who would like to attend classes from their office or home.“Our online learning program is unlike any other continuing educational...
Yale School of Medicine researchers have determined how the body’s immune system springs into action when invaded by the herpes simplex virus, which can lead to fatal sporadic encephalitis in infants and children.In a study published this month in the...
Asian Indian men are at increased risk to develop type 2 diabetes mellitus because of chronic liver disease rather than obesity, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the November 13 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....
Yale School of Medicine has received $6.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to study why the olfactory function declines as people age—research that could have implications for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative diseases....
The amygdala is a central processing station in the brain for emotions, but Yale researchers report that the amygdala also plays a role in working memory, a higher cognitive function critical for reasoning and problem solving...
A detailed study of 520 patients with thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) and dissection indicates a very strong genetic link, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.“All immediate family of patients with aneurysms of any...