1999 News Archive: Health & Medicine

December 
12/16/99Yale School of Nursing Holds Martin Luther King, Jr. Master Class on Minority Health
12/16/99Yale Researcher Catches DNA in Act of "Scrunching"
12/15/99Yale Outreach Worker Living with AIDS Receives Award
12/13/99Yale Expert To Address Threat of Deadly West Nile Virus At Tuesday Senate Hearing Hosted by Senator Lieberman
12/08/99Yale Child Psychiatrist Supports Results of Autism Treatment Study That Shows A Popular Drug is Ineffective
12/07/99Yale's Center for Medical Informatics Receives $1.5 Million Grant To Test Next Generation Internet
12/06/99Yale to Begin Clinical Trial for New Test to Provide Earlier Detection of Down Syndrome
12/02/99Yale Researchers Discover New Role for B Cells/Discovery Might Shed Light on "Mad Cow Disease"

 

November 
11/30/99Geography and Physician Caseload Are Key Factors in Oophorectomy Rates, According to Yale Study
11/18/99Yale Radiologist Part of Team that Designed High-Tech Exhibit at Walt Disney World's Epcot
11/17/99Women's Health Research at Yale Gets Boost from 1999 Ethel F. Donaghue Investigator Awards
11/16/99Medical School Appoints New Deputy Dean for Education
11/10/99Yale Scientists Discover New Technique for Studying Living Cells, Furthering Knowledge of Diseases Like Parkinson's
11/10/99Yale Medical School Students Plan Auction for the Homeless
11/09/99Yale Study Shows Aspirin as Effective as Anti-Clotting Drug In Reducing Post-Heart Attack Risk
11/04/99Tomorrow: Bone Loss Caused By Steroid Therapy Topic of Yale Medical School Conference
11/02/99Yale Nursing Professor and Expert on Minority Aging To Receive Highest Honor in Nursing

 

October 
10/28/99Yale Prostate Cancer Study Shows Newer Implant Therapy Has Fewer Side-Effects/Could Lead to Better Treatment Outcomes
10/26/99Yale Study of Long-Term Learning Deficits Resulting From Repeated Amphetamine Exposure Could Help Drug Abusers
10/22/99YSN's Milone-Nuzzo Recognized as an Outstanding Leader in Home Health Care
10/21/99Yale Professor Urges Researchers to Find Out What Makes Therapy for Children Work
10/20/99Yale Study Shows Way to Re-Stimulate Brain Cell Growth/Results Could Boost Understanding of Alzheimer's, Other Brain Disorders
10/18/99Yale Receives $10 Million to Study Tobacco Use Research Grant Comes From Three National Organizations
10/18/99Yale Medical and Public Health Fellows Report On Health Problems Across the Globe
10/13/99Yale Child Study Center Dedicates New Addition
10/13/99Yale Eye Center and the National Eye Institute Unveil VISION Exhibit at Bridgeport's Discovery Museum
10/12/99Yale and State Researchers Develop Improved Test for New Tick Disease
10/06/99Yale School of Nursing Launches New Publication
10/05/99Donna Shalala to Give Thier Lecture
10/04/99Breast Cancer Detection, Treatment and Prevention Subject of Yale Pathology Department Program

 

September 
09/29/99Yale School of Nursing Sponsors Art Contest for Holiday Card
09/28/99Breast Cancer Relapse Rates Appear Higher in Women Under 40 Who Have Cancer-Causing Gene, Yale Study Finds
09/28/99Yale Medical School to Begin Clinical Trial For Glaucoma Medication
09/22/99Tower One/Tower East and Yale School of Nursing Create Innovative Program to Keep Elder Adults Healthy
09/16/99Second Yale Conference on Women's Health & Fitness To Feature Valuable Research on Women's Well Being
09/15/99Yale Salmonella Study Provides Insight into How the Bacteria Invades and Lives in the Body's Cells
09/15/99Yale Study Finds Cocaine Addiction Causes Long-Lasting Changes in the Brain
09/14/99Yale Center for Spinal Cord Injury Research Dedicates New Laboratories
09/14/99Cutting Mental Health Services Costs Companies and Employees Sick Days and Dollars, Yale Study Finds
09/09/99Yale Medical School's Cultural Diversity Program Enhances Doctor-Patient Relationships and is one of few in the U.S.

 

August 
08/30/99Results of Yale Diabetes Study Could Lead to Use of Insulin in Preventative Therapy
08/27/99Yale Medical School Students Formally Inducted In "White Coat Ceremony"
08/17/99Yale Study Finds Patients Use Alternative Medicine To Complement, not Substitute for, Mainstream Medical Care

 

July 
07/23/99Orthopaedic Surgeon Promoted to Professor at Yale
07/21/99Study Shows Women Have a Higher Short-Term Mortality After Heart Attack Than Men at Younger Ages/Heart Attack Registry Data Examines Gender Differences in Early Heart Attack Mortality
07/13/99T. Berry Brazelton, "America's Pediatrician," To Address 21st Century Schools

 

June 
06/15/99Helen Wilshire Walsh Lecture To Be Given by Professor W. I. McDonald
06/08/99New Study Links Child Care Quality With Success In Early Learning and School Readiness
06/05/99Yale University School of Medicine Presents Alumni in Medicine Distinguished Service Award

 

May 
05/20/99Federal, State and Yale Public Health Leaders To Open New Disease Prevention Research Center
05/11/99Student Research Day at Yale School of Medicine
05/06/99Yale Researchers Uncover Hazards in Homes of Elderly

 

April 
04/20/99Free Anxiety Screening Day
04/12/99Front-line Physicians Learn the Management Side of Health Care

 

March 
03/26/99Medical Students Encourage High School Students to Consider Careers in Health and Science
03/22/99U.S. Surgeon General to Speak at Yale
03/09/99U.S. Surgeon General Satcher to Speak at Yale School of Medicine
03/09/99Yale School of Medicine Becomes First Site in Connecticut To Offer Test for Cervical Cancer Risk Factor
03/03/99Yale School of Medicine "Elder Life Program" Shown Successful In Preventing Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients

 

February 
02/10/99Major Medical Complex Focusing on Disease Research To Be Built at Top-Ranked Yale University School of Medicine
02/08/99Yale and City To Unveil Major Medical Research Complex To Be Built in New Haven's Hill Neighborhood by 2002
02/05/99Hypertension Expert Appointed Head of Genetics Department
02/03/99Leffell Appointed Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Director of Faculty Practice at Yale School of Medicine
02/03/99Research on Cancerous Tumors in Fruit Flies and Mice Brings New Understanding of Human Cancers

 

January 
01/13/99Yale University Quarterly Medical News Tips
01/07/99Noted Yale University Physioloist Ethan Nadel Dies at Age 57