Yale Daily News

A new Yale study has pinpointed the source of sugar’s allure by showing that the brain processes sweetness and calories in two separate neural circuits.

February 9, 2016

Ralph Hoffman, medical director of the adult intensive outpatient treatment program at Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and beloved psychiatry professor, died last week of illness. He was 66 years old.

February 8, 2016

The Yale undergraduate group Bulldog Hacks held its first mental health hackathon this weekend, attracting seven teams and 20 participants from across the University. At the event, teams worked to identify current problems in nationwide mental health treatment and then worked to develop potential solutions to the problems, many of which involved the use of technology to aid people with mental health conditions.

February 8, 2016

A group of Yale students is partnering with SolarCity, a leading nationwide solar panel company, to accelerate what they consider administrative lethargy in responding to changing sustainability needs on college campuses.

February 5, 2016

Following advice from the Connecticut Department of Public Health to health care providers to be on the lookout for the Zika virus, the Yale Office of Emergency Management is investigating the potential risk posed to the University and monitoring Yale-affiliated travel in the areas of South and Central America.

February 3, 2016

New research from Yale could lead to more effective treatment for people suffering from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a common and serious affliction in the overweight and obese.

February 2, 2016

Over 94 percent of women opt to remove their ovaries when undergoing a hysterectomy, a choice which might lead to negative health effects, according to Yale researchers at the School of Medicine.

February 2, 2016

On Jan. 15, the Yale School of Medicine launched a poster and online campaign called “Help Us Discover Heroes,” which encourages the public to participate in clinical trials of treatment methods for various disorders.

January 29, 2016

Kay Redfield Jamison, prominent mental health activist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University, spoke Wednesday night to a packed Sudler Hall about her decadeslong personal battle with bipolar disorder, the difficulties associated with mental illness, its relationship to gun violence in the United States and its romanticization as an enhancer of creativity.

January 28, 2016

The Yale Tang lab released Thursday a design for a new silicon chip meant to revolutionize quantum information processing, with the aim of making an […]

January 26, 2016

A recent Yale study of 1,021 known chemicals in fracking fluids and wastewater raises alarm about the substances’ public health impacts. Of only 240 substances […]

January 26, 2016