Disaster planning and response, including preparations for special populations, will be the topic of a conference April 17-18 sponsored by the Yale Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Yale School of Public Health. “Community Preparedness:...
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...
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation has awarded Yale University $2.1 million to establish the Donaghue Initiative in Biomedical & Behavioral Research Ethics. The grant will be used by the university’s...
Yale University has announced an investment of over $200 million for the Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics, a new initiative in these rapidly developing areas of scientific research. The initiative represents part of Yale’s previously announced $1...
C. Norman Gillis, professor emeritus of anesthesiology and pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, died on August 16 at age 68 in Boston. Recognized nationally as a specialist in pulmonary vascular disease and pharmacology, Gillis published...
The Yale School of Nursing is asking school children in New Haven to submit their designs for a holiday card for YSN on the theme of “caring.” The deadline for the art contest is Oct. 5. A single winner will be selected from three grade categories: K-...
The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – HHS – has given the Yale School of Medicine a clean bill of health regarding its Medicare billing practices at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The School of Medicine was...
Scientists seeking link between stress and addiction.Yale psychologist Rajita Sinha started with a simple question posed to a diverse group of academic colleagues at Yale and two other universities.“What is the role that stress plays in the loss of self-...
Yale’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (Ob/Gyn) recently sponsored two Yale medical students on a medical mission to Kenya, where they participated in the care of women with a condition known as vesicovaginal fistula,...
When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
