Susan H. Busch Differential cost-sharing approaches in employee health benefits encourage use of preventive care services while controlling a firm’s overall health-care costs, according to a study published...
Josephine Hoh A gene variant that increases the risk of developing the aggressive “wet” form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness in people over age 50, is reported...
Thomas A. Steitz (Photo by: M. Marsland) Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, received the 11th Keio Medical Science Prize in a ceremony and commemorative symposium on...
Vineet Bhandari Genetics play a major role in predisposing infants to retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a disease prevalent in premature infants that disrupts normal blood vessel development of the retina...
The third annual “Discovery to Cure Gala” A Fall Fantasy will take place at 6 p.m. November 18 at Yale University Commons at Woolsey Hall, 168 Grove St. All proceeds will benefit research and clinical treatment at Yale Gynecologic...
Women who participated in prolonged, frequent bicycling had decreased genital sensation and were more likely to have a history of genital pain than women runners, researchers in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive...
Pinpointing reasons behind the dramatic increase in testicular cancer, now the most common malignant cancer among 15-to-35-year-old Caucasian men, is the focus of a five-year, $5.5 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to Yale...
Global health inequalities are substantial, growing, and influenced by economic, social and health-sector variables as well as geography, a study concludes in the November issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.“Particularly disturbing...
Hospitals that provide the most rapid emergency angioplasty have specific strategies to expedite the care of patients with heart attacks, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the November 13 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).The...
Heart attack patients who also have another acute condition such as stroke, kidney failure and pneumonia may have a poorer outcome than those without these conditions, and those with the most severe conditions account for a disproportionate percentage of...
