Health & Medicine

Fewer low-income students are applying to M.D.-Ph.D. programs while affluent students account for a greater proportion of acceptances, a new Yale study finds.

Renamed to honor a late faculty member from the Yale School of Medicine, the firm focuses on promoting health equity and reducing barriers to access to care.

Yale Medicine specialists who care for patients under 50 with cancer answer questions about the about the uptick and the importance of family history.

Professor John Tsang and President Salovey discuss the Yale-backed Chan Zuckerberg Biohub New York’s ambitions for disease prevention, detection, and treatment.

In a Q&A, Yale’s Nicole Deziel discusses concerns about chemical contamination in drinking water and explores challenges and opportunities for research.

In a Q&A, Samuel Wilkinson discusses the evolutionary forces that spur us to be our altruistic selves and what inspired his fascination with life’s purpose.

A Yale researcher developed a vaccine that can slow or halt certain cancers in dogs. And it could be used to treat humans in the future.

On a Feb. 9 visit to the Yale School of Medicine, students from New Haven, Bridgeport, and Guilford explored paths to careers in health care.

Yale scientists have discovered a family of immune proteins that could affect the way our bodies fight infection.

In China, women who had “blue-collar” jobs experience worse mental health following the country’s mandatory retirement age than “white-collar” peers.