Yale Daily News

This past weekend, the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design hosted HackPeds, a two-day hackathon focusing on solving pediatric health care challenges.

November 9, 2016

“The relevance of this information is that we know that this mosquito’s extremely diverse,” Andrea Gloria-Soria, one of the lead authors of the study, said. “Knowing how its diversity is distributed around the world can help to track new introductions of the mosquito to areas where it wasn’t before.”

November 8, 2016

A recent Yale School of Public Health analysis identified 55 known, probable or possible human carcinogens determined to be potential water or air pollutants from the fracking process.

November 8, 2016

A recent Yale study hopes to put to rest a long-standing myth about consuming cranberries to treat urinary tract infection.

November 8, 2016

Last month, a research team led by Yale School of Public Health professors Jeffrey Townsend and Joseph Lewnard presented a model that described the transmission of bubonic plague during one of its major epidemics.

November 8, 2016

This weekend, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History celebrated four of the nation’s most eminent natural scientists with the awarding of the Addison Emery Verrill Medal — the highest honor bestowed by the museum’s curators.

November 7, 2016

Two members of the Yale community are proving that healthy eating and saving time are not mutually exclusive: Zoë Lloyd SOM ’17 F&ES ’17 and Nilofer Ahmed SOM ’16 created Kitchen Table last spring, a startup that provides plant-based frozen meal kits.

November 4, 2016

On Oct. 31, the Yale School of Public Health debuted its first massive open online course, “Essentials of Global Health,” on the website Coursera.

November 3, 2016

Need to see a doctor about a health issue? Choose carefully, because a new Yale study shows that physicians’ treatment recommendations could vary drastically depending on their political affiliations.

November 1, 2016

A recent Yale study provides evidence for a link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes — two extremely common diseases affecting millions of patients in America and around the world.

November 1, 2016

Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science professor André Taylor employed heme, a constituent of hemoglobin, as a catalyst to reduce the buildup of lithium peroxide, an oxide that covers the battery electrode and decreases efficiency of energy output. The finding aims to improve lithium-oxygen batteries, which are among the most efficient batteries ever created but lack functionality and widespread use due to oxide buildup and efficiency issues.

November 1, 2016