Search Results < Yale School of Medicine

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The return of the Yellow Berets
When one contemplates service during the Vietnam War, many different images likely come to mind. Infantrymen patrolling in a thick jungle or carrying their rifles above their heads through rice paddies; helicopters flying overhead, like in Apocalypse Now.
24 Mar 2021
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Strategies for living better, not just longer
Caroline Mayer, 97, lives with her husband Edward in an independent living community on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The couple has been isolated because of COVID-19, and Caroline looks forward to returning to her normal routines, which include playing canasta with friends and practicing tai chi.
28 Sep 2020
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Tackling addiction with treatment and predictive outcomes modeling
From the predictive to the prescriptive, advances in the science of addiction treatment are bringing us closer to delivering on the long-implicit promise that functional recovery from substance use disorders is possible. Mapping neural profiles to identify individuals at risk of addiction to..
24 Apr 2019
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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 only to create jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. ” These goals are intertwined in a $10 billion allocation to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the economic..
15 Sep 2009
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Mapping the future of medicine
With its largest grant ever, Yale is assembling resources to help clinical scientists focus on ideas—and leave the red tape to others.
15 Sep 2008
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Is the straight road too narrow?
Demands for cures and a flat NIH budget are putting pressure on scientists to produce findings that go right to the bedside. Still, there's value in finding what you're not looking for.
15 Sep 2008
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Rewriting the book on the human genome
A study published in Nature last summer has revealed a much more complex view of the vast, uncharted regions of the human genome than previously supposed. “Junk DNA,” noncoding sequences that make up the bulk of the genome’s 3 billion letters, may indeed have a purpose.
15 Jan 2008
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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 doubling of the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funding has leveled off, resulting in a net decrease thanks to inflation.
15 Jan 2007
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A conservative “hit list” targets aids researchers, including some at Yale
In the fall of 2003 Margaret R. Weeks, Ph.
15 Oct 2004