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A 19th-century craft immortalizes the august
In the corridors of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, great men stare out from their portraits with expressions of...

Bringing management strategies to Ethiopia’s hospital system
In December 1995, Elizabeth H. Bradley, M.B.A., Ph.D. ’96, professor of public health, received a call

Danger to patients seen in repeated tests
Since the 1970s, computed tomography (CT) has become an increasingly important diagnostic tool
Yale joins national effort to reconsider the benefits of hormone therapy
In 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a research program begun in 1991 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...

Antidepressants shown to nurture neurons
Doctors warn patients starting on antidepressants that they will have to wait weeks for the effects to kick in....

Cyclic AMP, a molecule linked to stress, also plays a role in memory loss
Working memory, the sticky-note reminder system of the brain, holds on to temporarily needed information by forming...

A surprise for medical school’s first grandmother
Karen Morris-Priester, M.D. ’07, who received her medical degree on May 28, hopes she’ll be remembered for more than...





