New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, an indication that they have received inadequate care for the...
Continuing to regularly smoke or drink alcohol after a diagnosis of head and neck cancer increases a patient’s chance of dying, a Yale-led team of researchers has found. The study appears in the December issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &...
An anti-convulsant drug commonly used to treat epilepsy reduces cysts in mice that are associated with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a difficult to treat ailment that afflicts 600,000 people in the United States, Yale University researchers report.“...
When schools serve healthier, more nutritious food, students do not compensate by eating more unhealthy food at home, a new Yale University study has found. In addition, the study shows that this type of school-based obesity prevention does not lead to...
Scientists are cataloguing an ever-growing list of ills caused by stress, a condition exacerbated by economic uncertainty and pressures of the holiday season. Yale University boasts world leaders in understanding stress, how it impacts our lives, and what...
Healthcare professionals using new time-saving strategies to coordinate care for patients having a heart attack saw dramatic improvement in “door-to-balloon” (D2B) times—the time from when a patient enters the hospital to the time blood flow is restored...
A new prognostic tool that can determine the risk of recurrence in melanoma patients has been developed by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The technology, based on five proteins expressed in melanoma tissue, can classify patients into a low-risk group...
When patients actively participate in choosing their medical treatments, they are less likely to opt for risky procedures, a Yale University study has found. The research appears in the December issue of Arthritis Care & Research.The 216 subjects of...
Yale Medical Group (YMG) and Yale Cancer Center (YCC) physicians are urging women not to change their breast cancer screening routines. Their recommendations come in the wake of a government task force report which reversed long accepted breast cancer...
Socially isolated female rats develop more tumors—and tumors of a more deadly type—than rats living in a social group, according to researchers at Yale University and the University of Chicago.The dramatic increase in mammary tumors among isolated Norway...