Yale Cancer Center and the Connecticut Challenge recently announced $125,000 in pilot funding to support cancer survivorship research at Yale. The funding will support four cancer researchers conducting innovative studies into the health-related issues...
Discrimination against overweight people—particularly women—is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University.“These results show the need to treat weight discrimination as a...
The Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Cancer Partnership have awarded Yale Cancer Center a $745,288 grant to launch a statewide clinical trials network to promote innovative cancer research.The grant is for the development of a...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau will receive the annual Mental Health Research Advocacy Award from Yale School of Medicine April 5 for his outstanding portrayal of the readjustment issues faced by soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Trudeau, a Yale...
Smelling food activates different brain areas than consuming it, according to a Yale University study published in Neuron that shows definitively what researchers have long suspected.“We believe that these findings add to our understanding of...
A Yale-developed exercise program designed to reduce bone loss and prevent weight gain in women with cancer is being funded with a $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.The principal investigator, M. Tish Knobf, the American Cancer Society...
Works by sculptor Joseph Saccio, a former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, are on exhibit March 12 through April 24 at the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and the Community Services Network (CSN...
Is it likely that a 10-year-old bully will change into a kindly pacifist, or that a struggling fifth-grade student will become the next Einstein? Young children from both the United States and Japan are highly optimistic about these sorts of changes...
The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) $3.4 million to compare the effectiveness of Internet-based coping skills training versus an Internet education program for diabetic children.The goal is to...
The Study Group to Consider New Residential Colleges met with the Yale Corporation on Friday morning, February 22, 2008, to discuss its extensive report. There was a stimulating discussion surrounding the recommendations by the Study Group to ensure that...