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This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. A new poll commissioned by the Yale-New Haven Hospital has found near-unanimous community support for its proposed cancer center, which will be the largest and most comprehensive cancer center in the Northeast upon its completion in 2008. The New Haven City Plan Committee »

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. The Yale School of Nursing was recently awarded a $2.5 million grant in order to study the effects of a variety of diseases on individuals and their families in at-risk, diverse populations. The funding, provided by the National Institute of Nursing Research of »

According to a report released this week, a severe lack of racial diversity persists in healthcare professions — mainly medicine, nursing and dentistry. The report, put forth by a commission headed by former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, stated that colleges and universities will be important in reversing the trend. »

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. At a meeting in City Hall Wednesday night, the City Plan Commission approved certain preliminary measures in preparation for the construction of a new $350 million cancer center at the Yale School of Medicine. The Commission approved the relocation of utilities from the »

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. Joni Huff, assistant director of the Health Professions Advisory Board at Yale Undergraduate Career Services, has been awarded the position of dean of admissions at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. An Illinois native, Huff will begin at the »

A group of uninsured patients brought a class action lawsuit against Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Yale New Haven Health System and the American Hospital Association yesterday. The legal action, filed by patients alleging that the hospital failed to provide care regardless of patients’ financial status, represents the 47th class action lawsuit concerning hospital billing and »

The continuing dispute over the unionization of workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital — accompanied by a series of well-publicized investigations into its financial practices — has placed the institution at the center of political debate in New Haven and Hartford. City and state officials have made the hospital a key target of both legislation and »

After the departure of former Dean Catherine Gilliss, the Yale School of Nursing — in conjunction with Yale officials — has appointed a replacement and is in the process of searching for a new permanent head of the school. Last week Yale President Richard C. Levin appointed Katherine Jones as Acting Dean of the School »

Funded by a recent $17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Yale researchers will soon begin enrolling patients in the largest drug trial for childhood epilepsy conducted to date. The study will focus on childhood absence epilepsy — also called petit mal — which accounts for 10 to 15 percent of all childhood »

Under the leadership of recently-appointed Dean Robert Alpern, the Yale School of Medicine is preparing to develop and strengthen many new programs in research and clinical care, including a project in stem cell biology. Alpern, former dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, assumed his position as dean of the Yale School of »

A new study by Yale researchers has found that a genetic mutation related to more aggressive breast cancers is four times more common in African-American women than in white women. While African American women have a lower overall incidence of breast cancer than white women in the United States, their cancers have a worse prognosis, »

This morning, Yale President Richard Levin named Robert Alpern, dean of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, the new dean of the Yale School of Medicine. Alpern, one of approximately six final candidates considered for the position by the search committee at the School of Medicine, will assume his position on June »