The goal of “Overcoming Dyslexia,” a new book by Yale School of Medicine researcher Sally Shaywitz, M.D., is to translate groundbreaking research on the disorder, including brain imaging studies, into practical methods and programs that can be used by...
Investigators at Yale and Oxford University have been awarded over $3.3 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a five-year study to investigate the genetic and environmental risk factors that increase susceptibility...
Elizabeth Bradley, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, has become the first Yale researcher to win the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators. The prize will be presented in June...
In the most recent large national study of heart failure care, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that elderly black patients hospitalized for heart failure received similar quality of care as white patients and had higher survival rates than...
Governor John Rowland has announced the nomination of Linda Spoonster Schwartz, currently a research scientist at Yale School of Nursing (YSN) working on the “Vietnam Nurses Health Study,” as the next commissioner of the Connecticut Department of...
Hyperglycemia, which is often a prelude to diabetes, is common in patients taking the antipsychotic drug clozapine, according to Michael Sernyak, associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. In an article published in the May issue of...
Patients with epilepsy may be more likely to experience treatment-related behavioral side effects than patients receiving the same drug for other brain disorders, according to a 4,179-patient case review by a Yale School of Medicine researcher published...
MicroRNAs, a newly discovered class of tiny RNAs found in both plants and animals, regulate the use of an important developmental control gene, according to a finding by Yale researchers. The microRNAs in the study are identical in nematodes, fruit...
At least 30 percent of persons caring for a dying loved one suffer from major depressive disorder (MDD), a consequence that might be overlooked as care for the terminally ill increasingly shifts from the hospital to the home, according to a Yale...
Two Yale School of Medicine professors, Linda Bartoshuk, who studies taste receptors, and Arthur Horwich, M.D., who studies protein folding in the cell, are among new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to membership in the...