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Forty years of research, teaching and healing
A bold experiment in mental health care reaches a new milestone
When Yale psychiatrist Frederick C. “Fritz” Redlich, M.D., met with newly elected Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff in 1955 to discuss how services for Connecticut’s mentally ill might be improved, he came prepared, according to Benjamin S. Bunney, M.D., the Charles B.G....
Building new bridges from lab to patient
Over the past two decades, researchers in the School of Medicine’s immunobiology group have led the way in unlocking the secrets of the immune system. Richard A. Flavell, Ph.D., chair of the newly designated Department...
Student-run auction for New Haven charities has a banner year
The annual student-run Hunger and Homelessness Auction, held last November, raised more than $36,000 for seven community agencies in New Haven, the most ever raised by the auction and an increase of $5,000 over the...
The rewards of life on the front lines
After we read over CMHC’s Annual Reports from the past 40 years, we felt like we’d eaten 40 boxes of Rye Krisp. There’s nothing like reducing an institution to a four-page bureaucratic report to drain the life out of a...
Advances
For better health, can the soft drinks
The annual U.S. production of soft drinks exceeds 600 8-ounce servings per person. These bubbly...
Read more...When cancer is a family affair
In life’s genetic lottery, we often inherit unfavorable characteristics. Some, like mom’s wiry...
Read more...For decades, people suffering from mood disorders have found relief with antidepressants, but the...
Read more...A closer look at bacterial insurgents
American troops in Iraq are battling on yet another front, one as ancient as war itself, yet as...
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Medicine@Yale, the bimonthly newsletter of Yale School of Medicine (YSM), chronicles achievements
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