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A joint effort to tackle obesity and diabetes
Campus-wide projects address cultural, biological roots of public-health crisis
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 65 percent of adults in the United States are either obese or overweight, and therefore run the risk of suffering from chronic health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular...
Growing spare parts for sick children’s hearts
Creating a living, growing organ from scratch sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But a pair of Yale physician-scientists are making it happen, coaxing cells to form artificial blood vessels that can be used to...
Transatlantic team probes kidney’s role in hypertension
Two School of Medicine scientists will join leading researchers in Switzerland, France and Mexico in a transatlantic collaboration aimed at pinpointing the kidney’s role in high blood pressure. The new effort, known as...
Advances
Mom was right: eat your vegetables!
Kids aren’t the only ones who should be nagged to pile more vegetables on their dinner plate. A new...
Read more...Lyme disease has European roots
More than 20,000 cases of Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted by deer ticks, are...
Read more...“Touch-me-not” tubes kill bacteria
Carbon nanotubes, infinitesimally tiny “pipes” thousands of times smaller that a human hair, show...
Read more...Breaking away from child abuse?
When an infant breaks a bone, it’s often not an accident. In fact, doctors cite abuse in more than...
Read more...For cardiac surgery, your brain on ice
We need blood to live, but blood makes life difficult for heart surgeons by obscuring the operating...
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