Yale Daily News

Yale-New Haven Hospital will open a Smilow Cancer Center branch in Old Saybrook in spring 2015.

December 29, 2014

The Senate confirmed the nomination of Vivek Murthy MED ’03 SOM ’03 to become the 19th Surgeon General at 5:58 p.m. Monday evening, with a 51 to 43 split.

December 15, 2014

Roughly 70 members of the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health communities, clad in traditional white lab coats, lay down in front of the medical school for four a half minutes today after assembling at noon.

December 10, 2014

Seventy percent of Yale Law School students who participated in the school’s Mental Health Alliance survey have struggled with mental health issues at some point during their law school careers.

December 9, 2014

There was silence. Dignified, mournful, resolved silence. Yale community members, from freshmen to faculty, stood up from their seats in seminars, lectures and meals across campus at 12:01 p.m. on Monday. They walked out in tens, and then hundreds, onto Cross Campus. The attendees, who gathered before Sterling Memorial Library, were from many demographic groups.

December 5, 2014

From now on, the majority of Yale Health Plan patients will be referred to Yale Medical Group physicians for specialty care and rarely to community physicians outside of Yale.

December 5, 2014

On the 26th World AIDS Day, as groups across campus and organizations across the world pay tribute to activists who were instrumental in stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS, the Yale researchers who pioneered New Haven’s Needle Exchange Program are celebrating those who made the program possible — the substance users themselves.

December 1, 2014

While federal funding for the NIH has been declining in real dollars since 2003, many at the Schools of Medicine and Public Health argue there is no need for heightened pessimism with the advent of a fiscally conservative majority in the Senate.

November 20, 2014

Former cardiology chief at the School of Medicine Michael Simons has been removed from his position as director of the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center, according to an article published Friday in The New York Times.

November 17, 2014

Almost two weeks after its first meeting on Nov. 3 the Yale School of Medicine’s Gender Equity Task Force is remaining silent about its plans moving forward.

November 17, 2014

Two Yale College students hope to launch an Android application this evening that aims to increase vaccination rates in the developing world.

November 13, 2014