Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
In light of national criticism facing Harvard Medical School, three first-year Yale medical school students are organizing a campuswide effort to minimize pharmaceutical companies’ influence on education. Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley is currently probing the details of three Harvard psychiatrists who did not properly report receiving at least $4.2 million from Pfizer...
Yale University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, one of eight HIV research centers in the country, announced yesterday it will receive a grant of $11 million from the National Institute of Mental Health, which will help fund another five years of HIV/AIDS research and health-care projects. The aid will allow the Center to continue to support...
Tiny pieces of RNA were recently discovered by Yale University scientists to play a crucial role in angiogenesis — the formation of blood vessels which is vital for everything from heart disease to the spread of cancer. The research could lead to improved methods for diagnosing cancer, macular degeneration and stroke.
The adage “no pain, no gain” may have some truth to it after all. Mothers who give birth vaginally show significantly greater brain activity in response to their baby’s cry than mothers who have chosen a Cesarean section, new research conducted by a group of researchers at the Yale Child Study Center suggests. The group, led by Child Study Center assistant...
Less than one day after being struck by a car near the Yale School of Medicine campus, Mila Rainof MED ’08 died Sunday morning at Yale-New Haven hospital. She was 27. The Santa Monica, Calif., native had likely been exercising at the Harkness Dormitory at 367 Cedar St. prior to the accident. On her way back to her York Street apartment at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Rainof was...
Yale School of Medicine will eliminate the required parental contribution for families making up to $100,000 annually beginning next year, Dean Robert Alpern announced Monday. The sweeping initiative aims to reduce student doctor debt for middle-income students and curb the attrition of medical-school graduates in lower-paying specialties. The policy — funded by a $1.1...
About 2,200 students, academics and professionals from all 50 states and 55 countries descended on New Haven over the weekend to exchange ideas about improving global health. The gathering, part of the fifth annual Unite for Sight Conference, included talks and panel discussions on a range of global-health issues. Although Unite For Sight focuses primarily on vision and...
Not all breast cancers are created equal. New genetics research by Olufunmilayo Olopade, a professor in the Department of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, suggests that the type and severity of breast cancer are largely dependent on patients’ ethnicity. Olopade determined that genes belonging to African-American women often have mutations...
Even as scientists across the country struggle to work around federal restrictions on stem cell research, Yale researchers will now enjoy the benefits of almost $6 million in grants. Twelve Yale stem cell research projects received grants totaling $5.6 million from the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee on Tuesday. The money was distributed as part of...
No one wants his cardiovascular surgeon bumping elbows with his neurosurgeon in the ER. And those same cardiologists don’t want to be bumping elbows with the neurologists in the lab. But with space shortages becoming increasingly acute, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine are often forced into such cramped conditions, interviews sugest. Clinical sciences at the...
Mary Tinetti and colleagues perform research on aging-related health conditions at the Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, a foundation funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1992, Tinetti said, who is director of the Pepper Center and the Yale Program on Aging. But a few days ago, Tinetti said, they were informed that their annual grant had...
Yale placed first in three sets of rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released Friday. The survey includes rankings of both professional schools and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Yale Law School topped the list of law schools — a feat it has accomplished every year since the rankings began in...
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