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Summer 2001
Three join National Academy of Sciences
Three School of Medicine faculty members were elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in May, bringing the...
Summer 2001
Yale 300 hits the home stretch
Yale’s observance of its 300th year began last October with a weekend focused on the University’s ever-stronger ties...
Summer 2001
A call to arms on AIDS
Yale students who previously campaigned for price and patent relief for an AIDS drug developed here turned their...
Summer 2001
Hope springs from UN conference
One of the participants at the UN’s special session in June was an AIDS-conference veteran who believes that too few of...
Summer 2001
Drug-coated stent appears promising
Physicians at Yale and other medical centers have begun testing a new stent coated with a drug to help prevent scar...
Summer 2001
Raising blood pressure to save lives
Severe low blood pressure affects as many as half of kidney disease sufferers undergoing dialysis. Their intradialytic...
Spring 2001
First African-American graduate honored
The first African-American to graduate from the School of Medicine has been honored with a new scholarship, which once...
Spring 2001
What's in a name?
Physicians at medical schools around the country usually provide their services through umbrella faculty practice...
Spring 2001
Parental prospects
A national survey of 3,000 adults, one-third of them parents of young children, found a surprising lack of...
Spring 2001
Caffeine study quells tempest in a coffeepot
The caffeine in over-the-counter pain relievers won’t get you hooked, according to a review of the literature by an...
Spring 2001
15 years later, a surprise from Chernobyl
During the 1995-1996 academic year, Jack van Hoff, M.D., HS ’84, associate professor of pediatric oncology, took a...
Spring 2001
Race not a factor
Race did not affect the quality of psychiatric care or clinical outcomes in a study of white and African-American...
Spring 2001
Endoscopic surgery is easier to swallow
People with a common swallowing disorder can now be treated at Yale using a procedure that is markedly less invasive...
Spring 2001
New take on tubal transfers
The two standard procedures for in vitro fertilization involve transfer of the embryo to either the uterus or the...
Spring 2001
Shorter stays, but what about outcomes?
Managed care has reduced the time older patients with pneumonia spend in the hospital and has led to a corresponding...
Spring 2001
Higher risks for younger women
Women under the age of 60 face a higher risk of dying during the two years following a heart attack than do men in the...
Spring 2001
A scholarly archive, in bits and bytes
As more journals move to electronic format and more scholars access information using these online databases, serious...
Spring 2001
Breastfeeding reduces cancer risk
Breastfeeding for two or more years reduces a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer by 50 percent, according to a...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Giving to YSM hits a record high
Gifts and new pledges to the School of Medicine jumped to a record $63.5 million for fiscal year 2000 that ended June...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A new generation of diabetics?
Rising rates of obesity among children may point to a coming surge in type 2 diabetes and a pressing need to find ways...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
In the soap dispenser, a lurking danger
Adding antimicrobials to consumer products such as hand lotions and soaps may not add to their effectiveness and could...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A new showcase for art
There’s an art to medicine, and some medical practitioners are also artists in their own right. Visitors to the Yale...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Hero to nitpickers everywhere
After dealing with an epidemic of head lice at a New Haven day-care center, Sydney Z. Spiesel, M.D. ’75, Ph.D.,...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Blacking out behind the wheel
Fainting spells are behind an increasing number of automobile collisions, particularly among the elderly. A cardiac...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A potential boost for transplanted hearts
Heart transplants often fail because the donor heart is not strong enough to overcome the lung damage common in people...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Interdisciplinary journal debuts at Yale
The schools of medicine, public health and law have joined forces to launch the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Use of alternative medicine widespread among the mentally ill
The use of unregulated alternative or complementary treatments is growing rapidly throughout the population. Yale...
Summer 2000
Laurels for Cushing
Harvey Cushing, a legendary figure in American medicine who began and ended his academic life at Yale, has been honored...
Summer 2000
Big jump in applications
Yale bucked a national trend with a jump of 43 percent over last year’s 2,469 applications to 3,530—or nearly 34...
Summer 2000
Faculty Practice elects governors
The Yale Faculty Practice, the multi-specialty academic medical practice composed of over 650 School of Medicine...
Summer 2000
A changing terrain in the Tobacco
In the mid-1990s it seemed unthinkable that the Food and Drug Administration might regulate tobacco, but Dean David A....
Summer 2000
A quarter-century of training physician-scientists
The Medical Scientist Training Program will celebrate its 25th year of training physician-scientists at the Yale...
Summer 2000
New Haven health informeation at the click of a mouse
Two years after its introduction, a Web site designed to provide users with everything from health statistics to...
Summer 2000
High schoolers get down to the micron
Most high-school students work with low-powered microscopes and magnifying glasses in their science projects. Students...
Summer 2000
Light at the end of the carpal tunnel
The conventional surgical procedure for alleviating the severe pain and disability associated with carpal tunnel...
Summer 2000
No link found between PCBs, DDE and breat cancer
Many have suspected that exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or the pesticide DDE was linked to an increased...
Summer 2000
An at-home test for glaucoma
A postdoctoral fellow in ophthalmology, Marcio Marc Abreu, M.D., has designed a new device that allows patients to test...
Summer 2000
Job picture bright for radiologists
Who says managed care is bad for doctors’ employment prospects? It’s not if you’re a radiologist, according to a job...
Spring 2000
IOM honors two from Yale
The Institute of Medicine has honored two from Yale with senior membership. Pasko Rakic, M.D., Sc.D., the Dorys...
Spring 2000
Farewell to YPI
After almost 70 years, the Yale Psychiatric Institute is closing its doors, a victim of the new economics of health...
Spring 2000
A spinoff from the lab
The Office of Cooperative Research has struck a deal with a Science Park biotech firm to distribute new reagents...
Spring 2000
Dr. Doe decision is reversed
Connecticut’s Supreme Court has thrown out a $12.2 million award to a former hospital intern who was infected with HIV...
Spring 2000
Bring in the marine sponges
A Yale chemistry professor is looking at natural products from a Western Pacific marine sponge as a potential source of...
Spring 2000
Dr. Mel’s doctors
Connecticut’s best-known meteorologist is donating the proceeds from his best-selling book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide...
Spring 2000
Informatics initiative
The Center for Medical Informatics plans to use a $1.5 million grant it was awarded last year to develop a computer...
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