Chronicle
Writers’ Workshop celebrates 10 years
Disease is the stuff of most internal medicine grand rounds. But for the 10-year anniversary of the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop, the doctors heard a folk tale. To explain her own journey into the writing life, keynote speaker Pauline Chen, M.D., HS ’98, a transplant surgeon and writer, narrated a Japanese legend her father used to tell her at bedtime. A fisherman releases a...
Treating the mind as well as the body
Mark Rego, M.D., HS ’89, and James Phillips, M.D., HS ’74, traveled to Peru for the first time in 2004 as members of a Peruvian American Medical Society (PAMS) mission to Ayacucho, a city of 150,000 high in the Andes. Each year PAMS brings a team of more than 100 physicians, nurses, and medical students to Peru to provide medical services. The PAMS team wanted to add a psychiatric component to its medical mission,...
Psychiatric care in the Peruvian Andes
My informal orientation meeting with Brother Jimi Hyata, the director of the Comisión de Salud Mental de Ayacucho...
Levin’s legacy endures at the School of Medicine
When Richard C. Levin took office as president of Yale in 1993, the university faced several challenges. Among them...
Hospital of Saint Raphael becomes a new campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital
About three years ago Marna Borgstrom, M.P.H. ’79, president and CEO of Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH), and Christopher...
Et Cetera
“Whenever I give a talk that mentions past findings of implicit gender bias in hiring, inevitably a scientist will say,...
Youngsters who receive instant lottery tickets as gifts tend to start gambling earlier in life, perhaps putting them at...
Banning smoking in bars and restaurants can cut down not only on tobacco-related illnesses but also on alcohol abuse,...
Yale scientists have captured views of an enzyme’s working parts that show the operation of its chemical mechanisms.“We...
From Other Issues
Spring 2013
Noncommunicable diseases take a toll in the developing world
There is good news in global health, but not for everyone. Over the past four decades mortality rates have decreased in...
Spring 2013
YSM scientists to congresswoman: flat research funding is hurting us
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat who represents New Haven and neighboring towns in the U.S. Congress, came to the medical...
Spring 2013
Health and fat’s excess energy
Yale scientists have found that excess energy is packaged into fundamentally different fat deposits, which are...
Spring 2013
Predictor for inpatient care
Though elderly people with heart failure often enter the hospital over and over, it’s hard to estimate a specific...
Spring 2013
Why heavy drinkers can’t quit
The brains of heavy drinkers, Yale scientists reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation in March, are more...
Spring 2013
Making an old brain young
Yale scientists have reversed a molecular switch that helps the brain make the transition from teenager to adult. They...
Spring 2013
As health reform looms, a new leader at YMG
In March Paul Taheri, M.D., M.B.A., left Shelburne, Vt., a suburb of Burlington, for a new job in New Haven. Taheri,...
Spring 2013
When viewing their own possessions, hoarders’ brains light up under fMRI
In the spring of 1947, two brothers named Homer and Langley Collyer were discovered dead in their Harlem brownstone. To...
Spring 2013
Two key genetic mutations open new pathways to treating meningioma
Murat Günel, M.D., HS ’98, can now look at the MRI of a patient with meningioma and tell with almost complete certainty...
Autumn 2012
New study finds links between meditation and brain functions
Meditation has been used to help treat pain, addiction, anxiety disorders, and depression; but it was personal...
Autumn 2012
Constructing artificial proteins to inhibit HIV
The Berlin Patient, an American living in Germany, was cured of HIV in 2007. The patient had developed leukemia, and...
Autumn 2012
Access to food improves
Healthier foods are more available in neighborhood stores in underserved communities since revisions in 2009 to the...
Autumn 2012
Blocking lung disease
A Yale-led team of scientists has uncovered a signaling pathway that promotes cell migration in certain forms of...
Autumn 2012
Acid makes bacterium deadly
Salmonella, which kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, turns virulent when it senses that its environment...
Autumn 2012
Genes and higher brain functions
A pattern of gene activity in the language and decision-making centers of the human brain is missing in Fragile X...
Autumn 2012
Unleashing the immune system against cancer
A multicenter team that included Yale scientists has reported one of the first significant successes in harnessing the...
Autumn 2012
Molecular profiling of tumors is cancer treatment of the future
In May 2011, Marvin B. Brooks, M.D., HS ’68, a urologist in Palm Springs, Calif., developed severe back pain while...
Spring 2012
YSM, pharma to collaborate
Yale and the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science &; Technology (COSAT) have signed an agreement to fund...
Spring 2012
When you gotta go
A strong need to urinate impairs cognitive faculties as much as fatigue or an alcohol buzz, according to researchers at...
Spring 2012
Abuse, neglect, and gray matter
Emotional abuse and physical neglect lead to less gray matter in adolescent brains, according to a School of Medicine...
Spring 2012
Orphans need more TLC
Orphans may require more TLC than children reared by their biological parents, according to a study by Yale scientists...
Spring 2012
New center to support novel teaching methods
A new center opened in February in a handful of rooms on the second floor of Harkness Building A. The Teaching and...
Spring 2012
Gene therapy takes a step forward with a synthetic nanoparticle
The particles injected into the tail of a lab mouse course through the animal’s veins, eluding immune surveillance as...
Spring 2012
Grant funds study of rare disorders linked to single mutant genes
While some diseases stem from a web of influences including environment, lifestyle choices, and genetic luck, others...
Winter 2012
Can a gene’s DNA be patented?
In the 1990s Myriad Genetics, collaborating with investigators at the University of Utah Research Foundation and other...
Winter 2012
Librarians work around the world
“It started with a couple of e-mails from a couple of residents,” remembered Mark Gentry, a clinical support librarian...
Winter 2012
Office of Student Research celebrates a quarter century of guiding students
Women who Google “conceive twins” are often advised to try eating yams. Parents of children suffering from a middle ear...
Winter 2012
Energy institute at West Campus
A $25 million gift from a Yale College alumnus and his wife will help launch the Energy Sciences Institute on Yale...
Winter 2012
Hospitals to merge
Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and the Hospital of Saint Raphael (HSR) announced in September that they had signed an...
Winter 2012
Why aging makes us forgetful
Anyone who has searched for missing bifocals only to find them in the crisper drawer can find an explanation—and some...
Winter 2012
Menthol cigarettes more addictive
Menthol cigarettes may be more addictive than cigarettes without menthol because they reduce...
Winter 2012
A Yale clinician ponders the ethics of a seeding trial masquerading as research
In the June 2011 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers described their discovery of a seeding trial for...
Winter 2012
Students begin new semester with iPads
A move to make the School of Medicine a greener campus has demonstrated the potential of new technology to change the...
Autumn 2011
Lasker Award recognizes research on protein folding
More than two decades of research into protein folding have led to a Lasker award for Arthur L. Horwich, M.D., HS ’78,...
Autumn 2011
DNR orders emerge as risk factor in surgery
Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders rule out cardiopulmonary resuscitation in patients who lack a perceptible pulse and...
Autumn 2011
Surgeons find new twists to an old story
In 1942 he was 47 years old and living alone, working day shifts at a ball-bearing factory in central Connecticut. He...
Autumn 2011
Scholarship fund honors alumnus
Boston Scientific, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of medical devices, established in February a $1.7 million...
Autumn 2011
Hospitals explore merger
Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and the financially troubled Hospital of Saint Raphael (HSR) announced in March that...
Autumn 2011
Ghrelin levels linked to fertility
Mice whose mothers had low levels of ghrelin are less fertile and produce smaller litters, Yale researchers reported in...
Autumn 2011
Exome sequencing yields target gene
Yale researchers have identified genetic mutations that can trigger severe hypertension through tumor formation in the...
Autumn 2011
Yale forms partnership to develop cancer drugs
Yale and Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company based in Foster City, Calif., announced in late March that they...
Autumn 2011
Army visits Yale to highlight its worldwide medical and humanitarian missions
To Afghan villagers, said General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal, soldiers in combat gear, helmets, and body armor who don’t...
Autumn 2011
Teamwork and collaboration lead to better medical care in hospital settings
Being a good team player may make all the difference when trying to save patients suffering from heart attacks....
Autumn 2011
Refugee clinic fills needs for both patients and physicians-in-training
When Sachin Jain, M.D., M.P.H., asked his patient about her eating habits, she consulted with her interpreter, who...
Spring 2011
Physician Associate Program celebrates 40 years
Forty years ago, as the physician assistant profession was taking off around the country, the School of Medicine...
Spring 2011
Yale’s global health program celebrates 30 years
More than 15 years ago, as Albert I. Ko, M.D., was working in the urban slums of Brazil as a physician and field...
Spring 2011
A lifesaving procedure for a Haitian priest
Ketan R. Bulsara, M.D., associate professor of neurosurgery, was born in a village in Gujarat, India, on the same day...
Spring 2011
Stop and Shop comes downtown
More than a year after New Haven’s only downtown supermarket closed, the Stop and Shop Supermarket Company has...
Spring 2011
Nanobiology institute launched
By early next year, research scientists in Building B-24 on the West Campus may be working on nanomachines that...
Spring 2011
RNA helps genes determine traits
A Yale study suggests that genes are not the sole determinants of an organism’s characteristics. The team reported...
Spring 2011
The brain’s molecular glue
The human brain has about 90 billion neurons, interconnected through junctions called synapses. Our brains form...
Spring 2011
A shorter workday for interns
As of July 1, medical interns around the country will be required to work fewer hours per day but with more...
Spring 2011
Child Study Center celebrates 100 years of mental health research
As the School of Medicine’s bicentennial year draws to a close, Yale’s Child Study Center (CSC) celebrates a milestone...
Spring 2011
A federal grant moves plans to link med school with downtown a step forward
Nearly half a century ago, the area between the Yale School of Medicine and downtown New Haven was the bustling Oak...
Winter 2011
Levin describes the state of the university
About 15 minutes into his Town Hall meeting at the School of Medicine in February, President Richard C. Levin came to...
Autumn 2010
Faculty and students bid farewell to someone who “does everything”
When it came time to bid farewell to Gisella Weissbach-Licht, no one could think of anything that she didn’t do during...
Autumn 2010
Incoming students immerse themselves in clinical medicine in new program
Making a diagnosis and suggesting treatment options would seem beyond the wherewithal of first-year medical students....
Autumn 2010
Patients seek disclosure
Most patients and research subjects believe that doctors and scientists should disclose their financial ties with...
Autumn 2010
VA ranked number one in country
The VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, Conn., one of 153 Veterans Affairs hospitals in the United States,...
Autumn 2010
Lincoln’s gait, errant gene
Abraham Lincoln’s gawky gait may have been the result of a neurodegenerative disorder that causes a loss of...
Autumn 2010
Alternative to bypass surgery
Yale researchers reported in the April issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation that they have found a...
Autumn 2010
Yale welcomes a new med school
Quinnipiac University in neighboring Hamden will open a new medical school—one that will focus more on teaching than...
Autumn 2010
Yale researchers create a Lyme disease app for iPhone that assesses risk
Protection from Lyme disease can be as close as your pocket, thanks to an iPhone application developed by Yale...
Autumn 2010
City supermarket closes, leaving a “food desert” along Whalley Avenue
When Shaw’s opened one of its few urban stores on Whalley Avenue in 1998, it brought fresh, affordable food to the Yale...
Autumn 2010
A new online network lets scientists connect over shared research interests
Scientific collaboration is a lot like finding a mate: people look for a partner within their spheres of contact, and...
Spring 2010
Mila Rainof lives on in annual lecture given by experts in organ transplantation
In the final months of her life, Mila Rainof, M.D. ’08, talked with her sister every day. “We were both very, very...
Spring 2010
Infectious disease fellow slain in Branford: former colleague charged
On the morning of April 26, Vajinder Toor, M.D., left his home in Branford to begin his daily commute to the School of...
Spring 2010
Website tracks ARRA funding
Since February 2009 Yale faculty have received more than 280 research awards with a value of $121 million through the...
Spring 2010
Yale docs on Haiti mission
Six health professionals from the School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital treated about 400 victims of the Jan....
Spring 2010
Medical experts for media
Yale Medical Group (YMG) in December launched a website that offers access to 90 specialists in clinical care and...
Spring 2010
Nanosensors test for cancer
Yale researchers have for the first time used nanosensors to measure two cancer biomarkers in whole blood, opening up...
Spring 2010
Cushing collection once again open for research
Over the years, in what became a rite of passage, Yale students would break in—by unscrewing a door panel and squeezing...
Spring 2010
A video game to help teens make the right choices about preventing HIV
For many teenagers, the high point of an interactive video game is being as bad as they can be—crashing the most...
Spring 2010
“Amazing” RNAs found to play a more complex role than though
Any biology textbook will depict proteins as the workhorses that carry out the lion’s share of biochemical reactions in...
Winter 2010
Yale team returns from medical mission to help Haiti earthquake victims
Over the course of a week in Haiti’s Central Plateau, a team of six physicians and medical professionals from the...
Winter 2010
M.D./M.B.A. program reaches its 10th year with 35 joint degree graduates
In the late 1990s, students at the School of Medicine approached Howard P. Forman, M.D., M.B.A., to ask if a joint...
Winter 2010
Collins named to lead NIH
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. ’72, FW ’84, was appointed head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in August,...
Winter 2010
Yale in global health consortium
Yale has joined five universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) to spur the...
Winter 2010
New strategy for swine flu
A Yale researcher has proposed a swine flu vaccination strategy that would minimize cases and mortality and reduce...
Winter 2010
How hunger blocks fertility
A molecule that may play a key role in obesity, drug addiction, and depression also turns off the reproductive system...
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Winter 2010
A Nobel for deciphering the ribosome’s subunit
A few minutes before noon on October 7, Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and...
Winter 2010
Yale mourns the loss of a gifted student and compassionate friend
Annie Le was a talented scientist, a caring friend, a helpful lab mate, and a fashionista whose click-clacking high...
Winter 2010
For the first time, DNA sequencing leads to diagnosis and treatment
A Turkish boy suffering from dehydration and failure to thrive became the first patient to receive an accurate...
Autumn 2009
Yale, city address chronic disease
New Haven is the first U.S. city to participate in Community Interventions for Health (CIH), an international project...
Autumn 2009
Emergency medicine a department
The Yale Corporation granted departmental status in June to the Section of Emergency Medicine, which had been part of...
Autumn 2009
Officials outline plans to reconfigure Route 34
In the 1950s city officials believed that New Haven needed a highway link to the towns of the Lower Naugatuck Valley....
Autumn 2009
A new ARRA for science as stimulus package boosts NIH grants around the country
In his inaugural address in January, President Barack Obama pledged to “restore science to its rightful place” and “not...
Spring 2009
Medical campus gets green award
The Amistad Street Building has received a gold “greenness” rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in...
Spring 2009
Economic situation worsens for Yale
In an e-mail to the Yale community in February, President Richard C. Levin said the deteriorating economic situation...
Spring 2009
A first term marked by progress and growth
When Robert Alpern was appointed dean in 2004, his vision for the School of Medicine was to build programs in...
Spring 2009
Yale obesity expert lauds New York tax dedicated to health programs
When Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., published an op-ed piece in The New York Times in 1994 pioneering a tax on junk food, he...
Spring 2009
Internal medicine continues outreach with focus on "human infrastructure" abroad
For nearly three decades, the School of Medicine’s international health program has provided career-changing...
Spring 2009
Recommendations for rest periods for residents meets with skepticism
For decades, doctors in training have endured long hours and sleepless nights during residency. Due to concerns that...
Winter 2009
Two grants advance public health
The School of Public Health has received a twofold boost in the form of an $11 million grant from the National...
Winter 2009
Yale pays $7.6 million in grants probe
Under the terms of a settlement reached in December, Yale will repay the federal government $7.6 million after an...
Winter 2009
Reform of premed education under way
In 1910, Abraham Flexner’s examination of the state of American medical education led to widespread reforms ...
Winter 2009
Dean of Yale College becomes third scientist named as provost
Last fall, during his final freshman address as dean of Yale College, Peter Salovey, exhorted ...
Winter 2009
A physician’s gift supports research on pre-eclampsia and prematurity
Shortly before the end of World War II, a dying Albert S. McKern, M.A. ’13, M.D., turned to lawyers—fellow prisoners in...
Winter 2009
Yale team builds new search engine that retrieves images based on embedded text
In July a team of Yale scientists published a paper describing an innovative search engine with a new way of finding...
Autumn 2008
Provost leaves for Oxford
Provost Andrew Hamilton, Ph.D., is leaving Yale after 11 years to become the next vice chancellor of the University of...
Autumn 2008
62 YMG members in top docs list
New York Magazine’s 2008 list of the region’s top physicians includes 62 physicians from Yale Medical Group (YMG)....
Autumn 2008
A student’s warm heart and “amazing” smile
As the 96 members of the Class of 2008 processed to Old Campus for Commencement on May 26, they paused at the corner of...
Autumn 2008
After a tragedy, the medical school community mobilizes around traffic safety
On the afternoon of May 22, about two dozen students, faculty and staff from the School of Medicine marched from Cedar...
Autumn 2008
School of Medicine goes green as it aims for lower carbon emissions by 2020
The Yale School of Medicine’s sustainability campaign is ambitious and costs a little extra, but it’s perfectly willing...
Autumn 2008
New financial aid policy geared toward middle-income families and students
Some students opening acceptance letters from the School of Medicine this spring had another reason to celebrate. While...
Spring 2008
Yale joins in HPV vaccine study
The School of Public Health and the Connecticut Department of Public Health are studying the effects of a vaccine...
Spring 2008
Award for Doonesbury cartoonist
The travails of the “Doonesbury” character B.D. as he readjusts to civilian life after losing a leg in Iraq won the...
Spring 2008
Yale alumnus funds new cancer hospital
Since his graduation from Yale College in 1954, Joel E. Smilow has made donations to his alma mater that have endowed a...
Spring 2008
After hard times, a student-run journal rides high again as an online publication
When Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., dean of the medical school from 1920 to 1935, conceived of the Yale system of medical...
Spring 2008
Actress-writer returns to New Haven with a drama about the resilience of the human body
About eight years ago, Asghar Rastegar, M.D., deputy chair of internal medicine and professor of internal medicine...
Spring 2008
A new Yale initiative promotes health issues as a tool of diplomacy
In the summer of 2006, Youssra Marjoua experienced, as she puts it, an “aha” moment. Marjoua, a third-year medical...
Winter 2008
Stress and addictions
Yale researchers have received $23 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how stress fuels addictions....
Winter 2008
YNHH among best in nation
Yale-New Haven Hospital has been included in the 2007 “America’s Best Hospitals” rankings published in July by U.S....
Winter 2008
Biotech spinoffs fuel New Haven economy
“Restaurants. Good restaurants.” The surge in upscale eateries opening in New Haven, said Jon Soderstrom ...
Winter 2008
Eyeing “broader impacts,” Yale bolsters efforts to bring science to local schools
High school students in New Haven and neighboring communities are reaping benefits from a federal effort to encourage...
Winter 2008
New building on Amistad Street: a place “where great science is done”
Taking a page from theoretical physics, scientists at the School of Medicine’s newest building will shorten the...
Winter 2008
Yale scientist tapped to lead Wellesley College
H. Kim Bottomly, Ph.D., a renowned immunobiologist and a deputy provost at Yale, became the 13th president of Wellesley...
Winter 2008
Summer program brings high school students into Yale labs to do research
Four years ago Gil G. Mor, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, was thinking...
Autumn 2007
Tracking the Yale shuttle online
A new service has taken the guesswork out of waiting for the Yale shuttle. Anyone with a computer, a Web-based cell...
Autumn 2007
Policy benefits grad students
Any graduate student knows that juggling research, teaching duties and scholarship is challenging enough, and becomes...
Autumn 2007
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...
Autumn 2007
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
Autumn 2007
An anatomist’s recovery: surgery hits close to home for head of first-year course
First-year medical students had to make do without one of their most beloved professors last spring, when William B....
Autumn 2007
Armenian rector visits Yale
Gohar P. Kyalyan, M.D., rector of Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia, met with Dean Robert J. Alpern, M.D., in...
Autumn 2007
Student-run free clinic wins Ivy Award for service to the New Haven community
Working at HAVEN Free Clinic has given first-year medical student Emma Barber, who serves as associate director, the...
Spring 2007
New grant for rickets study
Yale University has received a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal...
Spring 2007
Four named AAAS fellows
Four Yale faculty members have been elevated to the rank of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of...
Spring 2007
PET Center opens on Howard Avenue
Despite recent advances in molecular medicine, physicians are still in the dark about many diseases, gleaning clues to...
Spring 2007
Hands-on science program for local students brings town and gown together
The students who were asked to identify and explain the function of a muscle in the cadaver they’ve been working with...
Spring 2007
Training physicians—new ways of teaching in a changing medical landscape
For the past 32 years, Yale faculty from the Department of Internal Medicine have taught at 10 hospitals throughout...
Spring 2007
Two decades after its founding, immunobiology becomes a department
Ever since Edward Jenner injected a young English boy with cowpox virus in the 1790s to prevent smallpox, scientists...
Winter 2007
Yale licenses AIDS drug
Yale University concluded in June a license agreement granting Oncolys BioPharma of Tokyo exclusive rights to develop a...
Winter 2007
New MR system at Yale
Yale will receive a $2 million High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant from the National Center for Research Resources...
Winter 2007
New funding paradigms reshape research
Flat funding and a new research paradigm have turned federal funding of medical research on its head. After the recent...
Winter 2007
University hopes to build on success in campaign for “Yale Tomorrow”
Nearly a decade after the close of its last major fund-raising campaign, Yale has begun a five-year drive to raise $3...
Winter 2007
Years after gas attack, the horror lingers in an Iranian town, EPH alumna finds
After every bombing, people in Sardasht, a small town at the foot of Iran’s Zagros Mountains, ran outside to help the...
Winter 2007
Stem cell program gets under way at Yale with arrival of cell biologist
One of the nation’s leading stem cell biologists arrived at Yale last summer to lead a new program that will explore...
Autumn 2006
Yale joins in AIDS initiative
Public health faculty at Yale will work with the William J. Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and the Ethiopian...
Autumn 2006
CDC funds preparedness center
To ensure a swift, coordinated response to disasters, disease outbreaks and acts of terrorism, the Department of...
Autumn 2006
Meet the new dean of public health
At first glance, Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D., might seem an unorthodox choice to be dean of public health.
Autumn 2006
Cancer Center moves forward after vote by New Haven Board of Aldermen
New Haven’s Board of Aldermen cleared the way for the construction of a new cancer facility
Autumn 2006
Ugandan doctors visit Yale in first steps of collaboration on medical education
In 2002 Majid Sadigh, M.D., associate clinical professor of medicine, made the first of three trips to the Makerere...
Autumn 2006
Students reach out to the uninsured at free medical clinic in Fair Haven
The first patient to arrive at the HAVEN Free Clinic when it opened its doors last November was in serious danger. The...
Spring 2006
German pharma funds research
The School of Medicine and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BIPI), the Ridgefield, Conn.-based division of...
Spring 2006
Brain data on the Internet
In an effort to help neuroscientists quickly find the latest information about the brain, the National Institutes of...
Spring 2006
Six at Yale named to Institute of Medicine
Six Yale researchers, five from the School of Medicine and one from the School of Nursing, were elected to the...
Spring 2006
A son of Yale and the medical school receives AYA’s highest honor
At the end of World War II, Nicholas P.R. Spinelli, M.D. ’44, took leave from his Army unit in Germany and hitched a...
Spring 2006
From Student Research Day to a scholarly publication and The Wall Street Journal
Last May at Student Research Day, Hardean Achneck, M.D. ’05, described a link between atherosclerosis and aortic...
Spring 2006
Kessler portrait unveiled
David A. Kessler, M.D., former dean of the medical school, returned to the Sterling Hall of Medicine in December for...
Spring 2006
New five-year public health program gives undergrads a head start
Yale junior Sarah Milby has always been interested in pursuing a career in public health and community development, and...
Autumn 2005
Goldman-Rakic fellow named
Susheel Vijayraghavan, a graduate student in neurobiology at the School of Medicine, has been selected as the recipient...
Autumn 2005
Yale website designers honored
Patrick J. Lynch, M.S., director of the Med-Media Group of Yale’s Information Technology Services, and C. Carl Jaffe,...
Autumn 2005
A mouse offers a new way to test vaccines
The laboratory mouse—resilient, easy to breed and ideally suited to the genetic manipulations that form the basis of...
Autumn 2005
Marna Borgstrom named to lead Yale-New Haven Hospital and Health System
Since she joined Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) as a junior adminstrator in 1979, Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H. ’79, has...
Autumn 2005
Portraits in light—artists blend medical imagery into their work
In the 1990s, when Bettyann H. Kevles, M.A., asked listeners of the National Public Radio program Science Friday to...
Autumn 2005
Grey named dean of nursing
Margaret Grey, R.N., Dr.P.H., was named dean of the School of Nursing in July. Grey, previously associate dean for...
Autumn 2005
Yale endowment earns 22 percent, as investment steward earns plaudits
News of outstanding returns on Yale’s endowment came as the university’s chief investment officer was already riding a...
Summer 2005
CIRA opens office in India
President Richard C. Levin inaugurated a new office for the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on aids (CIRA) in...
Summer 2005
CIS contract renewed
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed a five-year, $5 million contract with the Yale Cancer Center to operate...
Summer 2005
Yale trauma training preps Navy corpsmen
When the Navy submarine USS San Francisco struck an uncharted, undersea mountain in early January, responsibility for...
Summer 2005
Drugmaker invests in New Haven facility and joint projects at Yale
Like many enterprises with international reach, Pfizer makes its corporate home in New York. But the company has deep...
Summer 2005
For stem cell researcher, Connecticut’s initiative offers a new avenue for progress
In her Yale laboratory in 2001, Diane S. Krause, M.D., Ph.D., surprised the scientific community with her discovery...
Summer 2005
From the operating room to hospitals in need, REMEDY provides surgical supplies
In 1991, after several volunteer missions to Latin America, William H. Rosenblatt, M.D., HS ’90, FW ’91, professor of...
Spring 2005
Kaplan named to IOM
Edward H. Kaplan, Ph.D., the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the School of Management...
Spring 2005
Yale joins national epilepsy study
Yale has been named a key member of a national group of medical centers that has received the largest grant ever for a...
Spring 2005
The molecule meets the computer chip
It is difficult to imagine two places more different than The Eagle Pub and Celera Genomics, each of which provided the...
Spring 2005
A new hospital pavilion, set to open in 2008, will house $430 million cancer facility
Services for cancer patients are currently scattered at six sites across the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, but that...
Spring 2005
New MBA program to help health professions with the business of medicine
At some point in the 1980s, according to Howard P. Forman, M.D., M.B.A., vice chair and associate professor of...
Spring 2005
Yale and New Haven join in pilot program for treating HIV/AIDS in Russia
Russia today is where the United States was 20 years ago in dealing with HIV/ AIDS: denial and prejudice are almost as...
Fall/Winter 2004
Yale joins diabetes trial
The School of Medicine has joined 11 other medical centers in a national study that will compare three treatments for...
Fall/Winter 2004
Eyewitness accounts flawed
Soldiers engaged in survival training had trouble identifying people they encountered during threatening and stressful...
Fall/Winter 2004
New travel restrictions bar Cuba rotations
For each of the past four years, up to four residents at Yale-New Haven Hospital have spent six weeks studying health...
Fall/Winter 2004
Neurobiologist Hockfield leaves provost post for presidency of MIT
When she embarked on her career as a neurobiologist in the early 1980s, Yale Provost Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., never...
Fall/Winter 2004
Yale CME gets a new lease on lifelong learning as it adapts to the Internet age
Nearly 25 years ago, when Continuing Medical Education (CME) at Yale was created to develop programs that present the...
Fall/Winter 2004
A conservative “hit list” targets aids researchers, including some at Yale
In the fall of 2003 Margaret R. Weeks, Ph.D., got a call from her project officer at the National Institute on Drug...
Summer 2004
New institute to explore cortex
The Kavli Foundation of Oxnard, Calif., has endowed the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at Yale University to pursue...
Summer 2004
Hospital imaging goes digital
Film and paper will become things of the past as the Department of Diagnostic Radiology begins implementing a digital...
Summer 2004
A down-to-earth leader who gets things done
Texas dean Robert Alpern, a distinguished nephrologist, takes the reins at Yale.When Donald W. Seldin, M.D. ’43D, HS...
Summer 2004
For doctors, scientists, workshop series is an initiative in translation
Catalin S. Buhimschi, M.D., is just starting out on his research career studying high-risk pregnancies in the...
Summer 2004
An author and physician helps residents become better doctors through writing
Physicians who listen to their patients’ stories—who listen as writers would—strengthen their relationships with those...
Spring 2004
New partnership in China
On a recent trip to China, President Richard C. Levin and other university officers cemented a program of exchanges...
Spring 2004
One paper, many implications
A Yale geneticist is among the authors of an article deemed by The Lancet last winter to be the most important...
Spring 2004
Health care van rides a road less traveled
The Community Health Care Van parks in front of an apartment house with plywood nailed over the windows. Orange spray...
Spring 2004
Biomedical engineering becomes a department, uniting several disciplines
In eight years, biomedical engineering at Yale has grown from a fledgling undergraduate major to the university’s...
Spring 2004
Renewed “vows” herald a stronger link between Yale and London
When a trans-Atlantic group of psychiatrists and psychologists gathered at Yale in early December, it was as much a...
Spring 2004
Newspaper heralds a new day in medical education—almost two centuries ago
Stop at medical grand rounds on any given Thursday morning and you’re likely to encounter Samuel D. Kushlan, M.D. ’35,...
Spring 2004
Limits on stem cell research may preclude development of key therapies, panelists say
Nobody knows whether stem cells, the body’s so-called “master cells” that can differentiate into other cells, will...
Spring 2004
For undergrads, mentor program offers a glimpse of a physician’s life
Five times during the fall semester, Shannon Gulliver, a Yale College senior majoring in microbiology, traveled from...
Spring 2004
Yale ranked among best places to work
It’s often said that Yale is a highly collaborative institution, but how does one measure collegiality? The Scientist...
Winter 2004
Late neuroscientist honored
In recognition of her pioneering work on the brain’s frontal lobe and her studies of the cerebral cortex and its links...
Winter 2004
Chagas drug licensed to nonprofit
The nation’s first nonprofit pharmaceutical company has licensed a new class of compounds from Yale and the University...
Winter 2004
Preparing schools for the worst-case scenario
In a hotel conference room last April in New York, Yale pediatrician David J. Schonfeld, M.D., guided 100 school...
Winter 2004
In gleaming anatomy lab, more room to work and a new way of teaching
When the 100 students of the Class of 2007 donned their scrubs and rubber gloves on September 5, they became the first...
Winter 2004
Clinical-skills course prepares students for the wards and a new Step 2
Medicine became very personal for Jessica Kattan, a second-year student, shortly after she took a patient’s history. “I...
Winter 2004
Honoring an NMR pioneer
A June symposium, “From Molecules to Mind: Celebrating the Contributions of Robert G. Shulman to Biological NMR,”...
Winter 2004
For interns, a place to eat pizza and unload the stress of a frenetic first year
“Do I know enough to care for this patient?” “I feel so out of touch with the rest of the world.”These thoughts are...
Autumn 2003
University, unions settle strike
As Yale Medicine went to press, the university and two major unions representing close to 4,000 workers had reached a...
Autumn 2003
Spellbound by spelling
Don’t count on keeping up with the competitors in Spellbound, the Oscar-nominated documentary about the 1999 National...
Autumn 2003
In the dean’s office, it takes a brain surgeon
On a Monday afternoon in late June, close to a hundred senior faculty members filled the Historical Library to witness...
Autumn 2003
A security review drags on, devastating a scientist and derailing cutting-edge work
As a scientist, Heng Zhu, Ph.D., is used to dead ends, setbacks and roadblocks. But nothing prepared him for the...
Autumn 2003
Neuropeptide’s presence in high levels suggests soldiers are born, not made
Contrary to the image of hardened drill sergeants molding untrained youths into skilled fighting machines, a Yale...
Autumn 2003
Keep religion out of stem cell research, Reeve urges medical school audience
Social and religious conservatives have robbed American scientists of their chance to play a leading role in the...
Autumn 2003
Warshaw returns for symposium
For the second year, Joseph B. Warshaw, M.D., former deputy dean and chair of pediatrics, visited Yale from his post as...
Summer 2003
The thesis goes digital
With a vision of electrons prevailing over paper, Charles J. Greenberg, M.L.S., M.Ed., head of reference services at...
Summer 2003
Two yale experts on bioethics panel
As medical and ethical concerns move from the laboratory to the front page, the Bush Administration has named 11...
Summer 2003
A new site for sore eyes
When Candace Ford went for her exam at the new eye clinic in the Hill Health Center, doctors said they couldn’t test...
Summer 2003
Contract still unresolved, union strikers spend five days out in the cold
During a week of subfreezing temperatures, a heavy rain and a blizzard, thousands of Yale employees, including hundreds...
Summer 2003
Does industry funding equal conflict of interest? Often it does, Yale authors claim
As biomedical researchers increase their dependence on industry support for research, Yale investigators say this...
Summer 2003
NIH awards Yale $18 million to develop new technologies for proteomics research
The university has received an $18.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health to establish one of 10...
Summer 2003
A winning spirit
When 12-year-old Millie Suggs rode her wheelchair in a Family Fun race at Disney World in January, two second-year...
Spring 2003
When Pfizer comes to town
Nearly two decades ago, vacant land on Frontage Road was designated a potential site for private ventures in...
Spring 2003
Tobacco funds up in smoke
The $246 billion tobacco settlement was supposed to help fund anti-smoking programs, but most states are using little...
Spring 2003
Nothing trivial about house staff reunion
What is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box? How many movies did Tracy and Hepburn make together? Who was the...
Spring 2003
In regions where resources are scarce, a gap between patients and treatment
The approximately 400 New Haven-area residents who stepped into a 48-foot tractor-trailer parked outside the School of...
Spring 2003
With an eye on outcomes, doctors work on perfecting the art of the interview
Robert C. Smith, M.D., Sc.M., told the 45 physicians at a workshop on interviewing skills last fall that he was about...
Spring 2003
At Yale conference, calls for a “Marshall Plan” to fight HIV and AIDS
Children growing up in Massachusetts can expect to live almost 100 years; a child in southern Africa is likely to die...
Winter 2003
Yale scientists among most cited
Yale University ranks fifth among federally funded U.S. universities for the citation impact of its published research,...
Winter 2003
Three join Institute of Medicine
Each year a few dozen select physicians and scientists are named to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy...
Winter 2003
Hoping for the best, preparing for disaster
This past fall, Yale’s School of Public Health introduced a new course on coping with disasters. Earthquakes,...
Winter 2003
For AAP’s voice on smallpox,vaccine question, especially for the young, is crucial
When the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on infectious diseases reconvened for the first time after September...
Winter 2003
An appreciation of the human form, in the studio as well as the operating room
From his house in Old Lyme, Conn., Wayne O. Southwick, M.D., surveys a green tidal marsh, and beyond, the blue waters...
Winter 2003
For an expert from Iran, reasons to worry about AIDS
An emerging epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Iran could have disastrous consequences for the country and the region, according...
Autumn 2002
New building nearly finished
As the Congress Avenue Building approaches what is known in the construction trade as “substantial completion,” much of...
Autumn 2002
Tribal tournament
In late spring the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of southeastern Connecticut, owners of the world’s largest casino,...
Autumn 2002
Private lives, public concerns
A patient’s chart can be many things. It is a compendium of ailments and treatments, but it is also a life story, full...
Autumn 2002
Smallpox vaccination study places administration’s plans for terror response in doubt
In the aftermath of September 11, Yale public health specialist Edward H. Kaplan, Ph.D., started thinking about how to...
Autumn 2002
Tailor-made medicines are within our reach, Collins tells genomics conference
Within two decades a new generation of highly effective designer drugs will spring from our improved understanding of...
Autumn 2002
Magazine gives students an outlet for creative work and a way to “unpack experiences”
M.D./Ph.D. student Kumar Narayanan recognizes that “not a lot of emotional experience in medicine is talked about.
Autumn 2002
Assistant dean leaves Yale for a post at Cornell’s new medical college in the Persian Gulf
In her 13 years at Yale in various posts, Cynthia A. Andrien, M.S., has seemingly done it all. She’s been the bearer of...
Autumn 2002
Executive of firm that cloned human embryos argues the research should continue
The future of therapeutic cloning rests on shaky ground as legislators contemplate new laws that would make it a crime...
Autumn 2002
For some in public health, changes to chicken have been foul deeds, indeed
The role of chicken in the American diet has changed radically during the past two generations: what was once the...
Autumn 2002
Yale team assessing neural stem cells as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease
Researchers at Yale are about to embark on a series of experiments to determine whether human neural stem cells can...
Summer 2002
Surgical Residency Revamped
The days of surgery “boot camp” may be over. To avoid reaccreditation problems, Yale-New Haven Hospital is shifting to...
Summer 2002
A definite link to diabetes
For the past decade, pediatricians have noticed an upswing in the number of young patients presenting with type 2, or...
Summer 2002
Biotech boomlet
The end of 2001 was less than spectacular when it came to investment in startup companies nationally, including those...
Summer 2002
Yale sets its sights on biomedical engineering
In 1996, when President Richard C. Levin laid out his vision for the University’s future in an essay titled “Preparing...
Summer 2002
Citing accomplishments, Levin reapoints Kessler to a second term as dean
Five years ago, when David A. Kessler, M.D., was appointed the School of Medicine’s 15th dean, the focus was on the...
Summer 2002
Hearing sounds, not words
In a recent experiment conducted by Yale scientists, bird songs, a dog’s bark and snowflakes stuck in the memories of...
Summer 2002
Genomics innovator, bold as ever, makes a few waves during visit to Yale
When the name J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., appears in print the words “genome” and “maverick” are seldom far behind. Venter,...
Summer 2002
For the next generation of students, Hope 110 will be known as "Rosenberg"
When former Dean Leon E. Rosenberg, M.D., HS ’63, returned to Yale in May for the dedication of a lecture hall in his...
Spring 2002
Clear guidance on conflicts
Since the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, technology transfer has brought thousands of academic inventions to the private...
Spring 2002
Community minded
Libraries at the School of Medicine have teamed up with the New Haven Free Public Library to offer health information...
Spring 2002
Sign of compassion
Emotions have a legitimate place in the practice of medicine, according to Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nancy R....
Spring 2002
Waiting for a heart, broker beats the odds
A Connecticut man sets record for survival on heart pump and receives a gift of life.
Spring 2002
Even after his death, a skeptic inspires his legion of scholars
Alvan R. Feinstein, M.D., HS ’54, joked in his 400th scholarly article that he hoped to continue writing until he faced...
Spring 2002
Yale group launches new effort to understand why organ transplants fail
By 11 a.m., Yinong Wang, M.D., is performing his fifth transplant procedure of the day. Each one is the same, and not...
Spring 2002
Alcohol and the brain
Since the 1950s, when Yale scientist E.M. Jellinek pioneered the notion that alcoholism is a disease, investigators...
Winter 2002
Medical school shows a changing face
As the Congress Avenue Building nears completion, a flurry of smaller projects alters the campus scene. Before suburbs...
Winter 2002
Instrument shop endures as a place for repairs, a catalyst for creativity
Tucked into the basement of the Hope Building at the corner of Congress Avenue and Cedar Street is a warren of well-lit...
Winter 2002
Overcoming jitters of 9/11, Yale celebrates 300 years and a global future
On September 11, when terror struck the nation and America’s mood suddenly turned somber, less than a month remained in...
Winter 2002
Funding the hunt for proteins
Yale scientists have received a $15 million, five-year grant that will fund a search for key regulatory proteins in the...
Winter 2002
Endowment defies slump
While most other university endowments posted double-digit declines as the economy soured in 2000-2001, Yale’s...
Winter 2002
Discovery channel taps YSM
When the breakthrough cancer drug Gleevec made headlines, Yale Cancer Center Director Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS...
Autumn 2001
"The strangest kind of letdown"
On September 11, a day of death and panic elsewhere, there was an odd sort of quiet in New Haven. In the medical...
Autumn 2001
Stem cell scientist urges congress to fund embryonic research
When Diane Krause, M.D., Ph.D., published findings this spring from her work on adult-derived stem cells in mice, she...
Autumn 2001
From autopsy suite, a treasure trove of "post-mortemism"
Before photography became the standard for capturing images of important anatomical findings, pathology departments...
Autumn 2001
Graduate program fosters an interdisciplinary spirit and a jump in applications
How does an academic program go from newborn to campus fixture in only five years?Yale’s Combined Program in the...
Summer 2001
From Kosovo to college, with a detour near Cedar Street
Two years ago, when a group of Yale medical students volunteered at a camp for Kosovo refugees, second-years Aaron...
Summer 2001
Emergency Department opens its doors for Learning Channel documentary
When a 37-year-old New Haven man leaped from the third story of a burning building and was rushed to Yale-New Haven...
Summer 2001
Clinical development fund makes first round of awards
Two years ago, when Yale University and the Yale New Haven Health System signed their first formal affiliation...
Summer 2001
The Giff tackles “retirement”
On a Wednesday morning in early January, Robert H. Gifford, M.D., HS ’67, took nine of his eighth-grade students out...
Summer 2001
Smart cards for health care’s future?
Before the end of the decade, patients may be arriving at the doctor’s office with their personal genetic information...
Summer 2001
Talking about health
Students from Yale’s health professions joined with city and state health officials for Spring Into HealthFair on...
Spring 2001
After an uproar, price of AIDS drug falls in Africa
A drug discovered in a Yale laboratory made headlines this spring in the ongoing debate about the provision of AIDS...
Spring 2001
No time to lose
Last year, a committee of 16 scientists and academics began evaluating the nation’s efforts to prevent the spread of...
Spring 2001
Pioneer in tobacco research receives first Winslow Medal
Last fall when the World Health Organization began negotiating a new global treaty aimed at curbing tobacco use,...
Spring 2001
Managing complex data about the brain
In recent years, the state of knowledge about the human brain—whether at the level of molecules, cells, or entire...
Spring 2001
To those who gave their bodies to medicine, a gesture of gratitude
As they begin to study medicine, students who aspire to be physicians or physician associates meet their first...
Spring 2001
"Topping off" the Congress Avenue Building
“It’s one thing as a parent to watch your own children grow,” Dean David Kessler told the crowd gathered outside the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Yale’s M.D./Ph.D. Program celebrates a birthday and 188 promising careers
When Donald E. Ingber graduated from Yale College in 1977, he had definite ideas about what he wanted to do in life. He...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Med school invites neighbors to join in Tercentennial celebration
The doors of the School of Medicine have always been open to those seeking medical care. On a Saturday in October the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
New research effort will target hypoglycemia
“Everything about diabetes cuts two ways,” says William Tamborlane, M.D., professor of pediatrics at the School of...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
New Haven’s young SCHOLARs take to the labs, and dorms
In a fourth-floor laboratory in the Farnam Memorial Building, G’Nee Herbert uses a pipette to prepare samples of mouse...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Pediatrics chair Warshaw moves north to become dean
When Joseph Warshaw, M.D., returned to Yale in 1987 after a five-year stint at the University of Texas, he was already...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Bright Beginnings initiative helps mothers, infants at the start of life
It started with a simple statistic. Eight years ago members of the Friends of the Children’s Hospital at Yale-New Haven...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
For a group of first-year students, an intense week in the lab
Exposure to some of the best minds in science has long been a benefit of studying medicine at Yale. For a group of 24...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
A closer look at the medical school, from a new angle
Nearly every college and university admissions office in the country produces a glossy book introducing the school to...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Anti-violence partnership chosen as model for national program
For nine years the mental health professionals at the Child Study Center have engaged in an unusual collaboration with...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Congress Avenue Building
Structural steel began arriving at the site for the Congress Avenue Building in early fall and began to transform the...
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
Art and medicine
During the first Tercentennial celebration weekend in late October, physicians and artists explored common ground...
Summer 2000
Preparing for a tidal wave
For decades the Iron Curtain limited personal freedoms within the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, as well as social...
Summer 2000
Never a cross word. Always a crossword.
After a lifetime of tending first to children, then to young adults, Alan C. Mermann, M.D., M.Div., is about to embark...
Summer 2000
CAB construction gets under way
With an occupancy date of March 2003, construction of the Congress avenue Building (CAB) continued on schedule in late...
Summer 2000
Faculty, students react to proposals for curriculum
Faculty and students have welcomed proposals to revise the medical school curriculum even as they raise questions about...
Summer 2000
Web site offers a wealth of data about the heart
A tour through the heart and chest, with side trips into a wide range of diseases and diagnostic and therapeutic tools,...
Summer 2000
Office provides new support for telemedicine
For many, the notion of telemedicine evokes the image of a doctor in the wilds, armed with only a cell phone, a...
Spring 2000
$500 million for medicine
After two years of incremental approvals, the Yale Corporation voted at its February meeting to construct a major new...
Spring 2000
Smoke signals
For many, nicotine gum or the patch has tipped the balance in the struggle to quit smoking. Others try hypnosis or...
Spring 2000
Medical school gears up for Yale's 300th
With its own bicentennial only a decade away, the medical school has its sights set on a more immediate cause for...
Spring 2000
Harris Building opens its doors
The Yale Child Study Center, which has a long and distinguished history of research and clinical work with children and...
Spring 2000
YCC director will guide revision of National Cancer Act
In the 29 years since the Nixon administration and Congress declared war on cancer with the passage of the National...
Spring 2000
Work of early cancer virologist celebrated at symposium
The human papilloma virus (HPV) infects thousands of men and women each year. Symptoms seldom appear, but for women it...
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