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Yale, Anthem resolve dispute

Negotiations between major insurance provider Anthem and Yale Medicine came to an end early Wednesday afternoon when the two parties came to a multi-year agreement.

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New dean named for School of Public Health

Sten Vermund has served as the Amos Christie Chair in global health, the director of the university-wide Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health since 2005 and, more recently, vice president for global health of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Yale-Anthem spar threatens patients

Yale Medicine and Anthem have until midnight on Oct. 7 to complete contract negotiations. If the two parties fail to reach an agreement by Oct. 8, customers on Anthem’s insurance plans will be charged higher out of network rates if they wish to see doctors affiliated with Yale Medicine.

Researchers reflect on three decades of HIV research

It has been 35 years since the first case of HIV/AIDS was recorded in Connecticut, and since then, Yale has been at the forefront of […]

Yale study tests implicit bias of preschool teachers

Researchers at the Yale Child Study Center have shed light on implicit racial and gender bias as it affects preschool teachers. The team of researchers, […]

Sticky nanoparticles offer alternative to traditional chemotherapy

Researchers at Yale have discovered that the use of “sticky” bioadhesive nanoparticles to deliver a potent chemotherapy drug may be a safer and more effective […]

Researchers awarded $10.5 million to study anti-aging hormone

A group of Yale researchers investigating the potentially life-extending capacity of a hormone was recently jointly awarded $10.5 million in research funding by the National […]

Genius CEO talks entrepreneurship, Yale

What advice does Tom Lehman ’06, the CEO and co-founder of the internet startup Genius, have for Yale students? “Chill out a little bit.” Lehman, […]

Student-founded app teaches programming

For years, new programming students have been vexed by learning the programming language Python. While some commit to this fate when they become computer science majors, a new app co-developed by Derek Lo ’17 allows students to escape the rigidity of this learning style and become proficient in the language on their own terms.

In mood drugs, budding treatment for defect-inducing virus

There may soon be a treatment for the leading cause of congenital birth defects in the United States, new research from the Yale School of Medicine suggests.

Yale chosen as a research site for “the Manhattan Project” of Brain Imaging

Yale was recently selected to be a part of a 10-year study focused on the brain growth and development of 10,000 adolescents across the country.