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A big birthday for Child Study Center
A century of child development research and compassionate care for childhood disorders is marked by world-renowned Yale department
As the School of Medicine’s bicentennial year draws to a close, Yale’s venerable Child Study Center (CSC) has begun celebrating a milestone of its own—its 100th anniversary.One of the School of Medicine’s 28 departments, the CSC was born in 1911 when Wisconsin native...
In 11 steps, chemists make a giant leap
In the latest chapter of a 15-year scientific story spanning the globe from the South Pacific to New Haven, a team of scientists in Yale’s Department of Chemistry has achieved the first synthesis of an elusive chemical...
Surgeons-turned-detectives explore the dawn of chemotherapy
Thanks to the unearthing of long-lost medical records by two dogged surgeons, the full story of the first use of intravenous chemotherapy for cancer, which occurred at Yale in the early 1940s, can now be told.The...
New grant from VA supports a fresh look at primary care training
The United States faces a severe shortage of physicians in the coming decades. As the health care needs of the aging Baby Boomers grow rapidly, the number of medical school students electing to enter the field of...
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A cellular doorkeeper’s role in hypertension
From their perch atop the kidneys, the adrenal glands help to control blood pressure by secreting...
Read more...Uncovering genes that orient organs
Our bodies exhibit symmetry—two eyes, ears, arms, legs, and so on. But internal organs such as the...
Read more...Now? Later? Brain cells help us make the call
We all prefer receiving large rewards right away, but we typically must choose between small, quick...
Read more...Sorting out the steps in Salmonella infection
Salmonella bacteria invade the gut by piercing a needle-like structure through the intestinal...
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