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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...

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...

“Hidden” fat poses serious health risk
Postmenopausal women who exercise regularly won’t necessarily see dramatic changes on their bathroom scales or in their...

Ovarian tumors need not cause infertility
A conservative approach to the treatment of a rare form of ovarian cancer, called ovarian germ cell malignancies,...

A link between sugar and heart defects
It’s a heart-rending legacy: mothers who have uncontrolled diabetes during pregnancy are three times more likely to...

From the stomach to the brain: how a peptide hormone sparks appetite
In recent years neurobiologists have taken a keen interest in a peptide hormone called ghrelin. The molecule appears to...

Rolling on outa here
When warm weather beckoned this spring, genetics graduate student Matthew Weed joined fellow students studying outdoors...





