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Autumn 2001
Applications hit an online snag
Every alum knows about the Yale System of Medical Education and its emphasis on independent scholarship over class...
Autumn 2001
Contributions reach new high
For the second year in a row, gifts to the medical school have soared. At the close of fiscal year 2001, philanthropy...
Autumn 2001
Targeting macular degeneration
Macular degeneration, caused by the deterioration of the central portion of the retina called the macula, affects an...
Autumn 2001
Sleep apnea and stroke
People who snore, sleep restlessly and feel tired during the day are at higher risk of suffering a stroke, according to...
Autumn 2001
Lessons in geriatric medicine
The care of elderly patients is far more complex than treatment of younger people, yet clinicians too often ignore this...
Autumn 2001
New genes for hypertension
A team of Yale scientists has identified mutations in two genes that cause a rare form of hypertension. The finding has...
Autumn 2001
An herbal clue to inflammation
An herb commonly used to treat migraines inhibits a protein that causes inflammation, Yale pharmacologists have found....
Autumn 2001
Case of hide and seek?
Treated early, Lyme disease is usually cured with antibiotics, but the prolonged form of the disease can be more...
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...
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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