William Sessa The enzyme nitric oxide synthase plays a role in peripheral vascular disease, a common disease that impairs the mobility of 25 percent of people over the age of 50, according to a Yale study in the Proceedings of the National...
Dana Small, assistant professor of surgery Researchers in a study in Neuron this week present the first clear evidence that the brain processes the same odorant molecule differently if it arrives through the nose rather than the mouth...
Among patients being treated with antipsychotic medication, including those who were taking the most generation of drugs, a new diagnoses of diabetes did not result in substantial changes in prescription, according to a a study at Yale School of Medicine....
A medication used to ease symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, also is helpful in treating people with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a pilot study at Yale School of Medicine.Although...
Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has named Derek Toomre, assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, the Bayer Fellow in Medicine and Management for 2005-2006. He’s also Assistant Member, Ludwig Institute for Cancer...
Patients who are delirious during hospitalization one year later had 13 percent fewer days of survival during the following year when compared to patients without delirium, according to a study published this month in the Archives of Internal Medicine....
Yale School of Medicine is the recipient of a $6.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish a microarray center for research on the nervous system.The Yale center is a new addition to the NIH Neuroscience Microarray...
Yale School of Medicine is participating in the first clinical trial testing atorvastatin to delay or decrease disease in patients who have experienced a first attack of multiple sclerosis (MS).Statins, of which atorvastatin is one, are a relatively new...
July 12, 2005 — A Yale School of Medicine-based, multi-institutional study on necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is being supported by a $1 million grant from the Gerber Foundation. NEC is an acute intestinal condition occurring in premature and low birth...
July 12, 2005 — Yale School of Medicine researchers report the first demonstration that a single mutation in a human sodium channel gene can trigger pain in people with an inherited pain syndrome known as primary erythromelalgia, according to a study...
