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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...
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...

Consistency lacking in transfer of patient data
No matter how swift the runners, a relay race is lost if they don’t pass the baton properly.

New forum offers a place for doctors and nurses to discuss issues of patient care
On a Thursday afternoon last fall, 23 physicians, nurses and social workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) met to...

An early start for the thinking brain
The cerebral cortex, a layer of cells just a few millimeters thick on the outermost surface of the brain, is largely...

Lacking an enzyme linked to diabetes and obesity, mice stay slim on a high-carb diet
Even on a “supersize” diet, mice bred to lack a certain enzyme remained more svelte than mice with the enzyme,...

Ovarian cancer screening to reach patients
Physicians refer to epithelial ovarian cancer as “the silent killer.” With few early symptoms, the disease often goes...





