Pregnancy Complications are a Stress Test for Future Maternal Health and Pregnancies

Predicting whether pregnancy complications affect long-term maternal health as well as future pregnancies is at the heart of two studies conducted by researchers in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. Click here for more.

Yale and University of Malaya Join Forces to Battle HIV in Prisons

Yale University is partnering with the University of Malaya to fight the spread of HIV among drug users in Malaysia who are completing prison terms and transitioning back into the community. Click here for more.

Researchers Suggests Gene Inhibition May Help Normalize Type 2 Diabetes

In research that could lead to new approaches for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, a Yale School of Medicine team has found that suppressing a liver enzyme that induces glucose production helped diminish the symptoms of the disease. Click here for more.

Researchers Suggests Gene Inhibition May Help Normalize Type 2 Diabetes

In research that could lead to new approaches for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, a Yale School of Medicine team has found that suppressing a liver enzyme that induces glucose production helped diminish the symptoms of the disease. Click here for more.

Antidepressants Offer No Relief for Repetitive Behaviors in Children With Autism

A study determines that the repetitive behaviors exhibited by some children and teens with autism spectrum disorders are not reduced with the antidepressant citalopram. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Find New Trigger for Seasonal Allergies

A team of Yale scientists has discovered how a poorly understood component of the human immune system triggers – and sometimes worsens – allergic reactions. Click here for more.

Yale Team Identifies Key to Potential New Treatment for Allergy-Induced Asthma

In research that could lead to new asthma drugs, scientists have discovered a trigger of allergy-induced asthma in mice. Click here for more.

Obstetrical Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital Achieves Dramatic Improvement in Patient Safety

Maternal and newborn outcomes were greatly improved when doctors implemented a series of simple clinical interventions at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s obstetrical unit. Click here for more.

Molecular Markers May Help Physicians Predict Severity of Prostate Cancers

In a research advance that could eventually change the way men are treated for prostate cancer, scientists at Yale University and Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System report that certain molecular markers detected in initial biopsy specimens obtained at the time of diagnosis were associated with higher death rates from the disease. Click here for more.

Success of Clinical Research Depends on the Altruism of Many Volunteers

Clinical trials, researchers say, are a necessary, critical step in the process of making sure that potential new treatments are safe and effective. Click here for more.

Higher Risk of Complications Tied to Defibrillators Implanted by Non-Specialist Physicians

A Yale study reports that non-specialist physicians who inserted implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) have higher rates of complications in their patients than electrophysiologists, who are specially trained to implant the devices. Click here for more.

Heart Screening Unnecessary in Type 2 Diabetes Patients With No Symptoms

Routine screening for coronary artery disease in type 2 diabetes patients with no symptoms of angina or a history of coronary disease is unnecessary and may lead initially to more invasive and costly heart procedures, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Discover Mechanism for Social Development That is Absent in Autistic Children

A Yale study reports that two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction. They pay attentiont to to physical relationships between movement and sound, not other people. Click here for more.

An Angry Heart Can Lead to Sudden Death, Yale Researchers Find

Yale School of Medicine researchers link changes brought on by anger or other strong emotions to future arrhythmias and sudden cardiac arrests. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Find New Piece in Alzheimer's Puzzle

Yale researchers have filled in a missing gap on the molecular road map of Alzheimer's disease. Click here for more.

New ‘Quiet’ System Will Alleviate Children’s Fear of the Traditional, Noisy Saw Used To Cut off Casts

Yale Orthopaedics has won a grant to purchase an OrthoPediatrics Quiet Cast Removal System. Click here for more.

Yale Surgeon Performs "Invisible Incision Surgery" at Yale-New Haven Hospital

Kurt Roberts, MD performs an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Unravel Mystery of Brain Aneurysms

Yale researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the often fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year. Click here for more.

Anti-Clotting Drug Thins Risk to Pregnancy and Surgery Patients With Blood Disorder

Pregnancy and surgery patients with a serious blood disorder that causes excessive clotting have responded well to treatment with a man-made anti-clotting protein. Click here for more.

Toddlers’ Focus on Mouths Rather Than on Eyes is a Predictor of Autism Severity

Yale Scientists have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. Click here for more.

Scientists Identify Genetic Marker to Predict Lung Cancer Risk

Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine why some people are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. Click here for more.

Solstice Alert: Risk of Skin Cancer from Winter Sun; Yale Physician Offers Free Skin Care Book Online

Here’s a warning from Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. David J. Leffell: “Just because the calendar says December or January doesn’t mean you’re free from the risk of skin cancer.” Click here for more.

Anti-Clotting Drug Thins Risk to Pregnancy and Surgery Patients With Blood Disorder

Pregnancy and surgery patients with a serious blood disorder that causes excessive clotting have responded well to treatment with a man-made anti-clotting protein. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Enlist a New Recruit in Battle of the Bulge

In the battle against obesity, Yale University researchers may have discovered a new weapon — a naturally occurring molecule secreted by the gut that makes rats and mice less hungry after fatty meals. Click here for more.

Biomedical Detectives

With HHMI funding, these Yale scientists are working to solve some of the most challenging biomedical mysteries. Click here for more.

Yale Team To Study How Pregnant Mothers’ Cocaine Use Affects Interactions with Infants

Yale and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will share a $10 million grant to study the way cocaine use during pregnancy affects interactions between mothers and infants. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Unravel Mystery of Brain Aneurysms

Yale researchers have taken the first critical steps in unraveling the mysteries of brain aneurysms, the often fatal rupturing of blood vessels that afflicts 500,000 people worldwide each year. Click here for more.

Elderly Fare Better When Included in Decisions on Treatment Trade-Offs

Halting a medication that treats one ailment because it may worsen another is a treatment trade-off decision that elderly patients with multiple medical conditions would rather take part in, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report. Click here for more.

Doctors Aim To Improve Patient Care via Electronic Record System

Yale School of Medicine has received a contract from the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to boost the quality of physicians' healthcare delivery. Click here for more.

Yale Researchers Describe Crossroads in Pathway to Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease

Yale University researchers have described a molecular traffic signal in the middle of a busy biological highway that influences diverse processes. Click here for more.

Yale Study Takes a Closer Look at Safety Gaps During Patient “Sign Out”

Patients may receive poor or delayed care after sign-out—the transfer of a patient from one doctor to another during a shift change. Click here for more.

Toddlers’ Focus on Mouths Rather Than on Eyes is a Predictor of Autism Severity

Yale Scientists have found that two-year-olds with autism looked significantly more at the mouths of others, and less at their eyes, than typically developing toddlers. Click here for more.

Scientists Identify Genetic Marker to Predict Lung Cancer Risk

Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine why some people are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. Click here for more.

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