2003 News Archive: Health & Medicine

December 
12/22/03Yale Researchers Develop Improved Artificial Skin
12/18/03 Brain Area that Regulates Emotions is Smaller in Persons with Bipolar Disorder
12/15/03Natural Killer T Cells Are Responsible for Skin Allergies, Yale Researchers Find
12/15/03 Importance of Cilia in Inherited Kidney Disease a Focus of Yale Researchers
12/09/03 Clinical Trial for Patients with Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases
12/09/03 Clinical Trial for Patients with Lung Cancer and Brain Metastases
12/02/03Studies Question Economics of Anti-Psychotic and Anti-Depressant Drugs
12/01/03World AIDS Day Recognized with Week of Events at Yale
12/01/03Yale Scientists Report Evolution Preserved in Pseudogenes

 

November 
11/25/03In Memoriam: Yale Radiologist Barry Kacinski, M.D., Who Was Internationally Known for Research into Development of Malignancies
11/25/03Premature Infants Benefit From Group Prenatal Care, Yale Researchers Find
11/24/03Breastfed Infants Show Little Effect when Moms Take Anti-Depressant
11/19/03Yale Dedicates Breast Center November 19
11/17/03Pfizer Fellowship To Honor Patricia Goldman-Rakic
11/17/03Humanoid Robot to Aid Autism Diagnosis is Goal of New Study Funded by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Award
11/14/03First Prematurity Awareness Day Marked by Star Chefs Auction Co-Chaired by Yale School of Medicine Leader
11/14/03Yale Medical School Auction to Benefit the Needy, Nov. 17-20
11/13/03Women's Health Research at Yale Director Carolyn Mazure to Speak at 8th Annual Conference on Women's Health and the Environment
11/12/03Increased Number of Neurons in Tourette's Syndrome Patients Could Compensate for Symptoms Over Time, Yale Researchers Find
11/11/03Famous Yale Immunologist to be Honored with Symposium
11/06/03Researchers Pinpoint Source of Chronic Pain Resulting from Spinal Cord Injury
11/04/03Memory Enhancing Drugs May Worsen Working Memory
11/04/03Older, Chronically Ill Patients May Not be Prepared to Receive Prognosis
11/04/03Older, Chronically Ill Patients May Not be Prepared to Receive Prognosis

 

October 
10/31/03Marie Curie: Yale Medical Library Exhibit Opens November 6
10/31/03Marie Curie Nobel Centennial Celebration of Women in Science
10/28/03Yale Rates High in "Best Places to Work in Academia"
10/28/03Women's Health Research at Yale Kicks Off Five-Year Anniversary With "From Vision to Innovation"
10/28/03Women's Health Research at Yale Names 2003 Donaghue Grant Recipients
10/28/03Rare Form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Associated with Gene Mutation
10/23/03Johnson & Johnson Awards $525,000 Grant to Yale Physician Scholars In International Health Program
10/17/03Advisory: Editors and Reporters; Re: Staten Island Ferry Crash
10/17/03Racial Disparity Found in Survival Rates of Children with a Common Leukemia
10/16/03 Yale Department of Pharmacology Will Dedicate New Wing
10/16/03 Yale Department of Pharmacology Will Dedicate New Wing
10/16/03Children Are Happy with Toys or Candy at Halloween
10/09/03Yale Researchers Find Genetic Basis for Metastatic Cancer
10/07/03Asthmatic Children Vulnerable to Even Low Levels of Ozone
10/07/03Asthmatic Children Vulnerable to Even Low Levels of Ozone
10/03/03 Pregnant Asthmatic Women Can Limit Newborn Complications Using Beta2 Agonists
10/03/03Yale-Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program Receives $6 Million NIH Grant
10/03/03 Pregnant Asthmatic Women Can Limit Newborn Complications Using Beta2 Agonists
10/03/03Yale-Mentored Clinical Research Scholar Program Receives $6 Million NIH Grant

 

September 
09/29/03Infants Can Use Previous Observations to Interpret New Ones
09/25/03Even Health Professionals Who Treat Obesity Are Biased Against Overweight Patients
09/24/03 Yale Medical School Applications Strong Despite Nationwide Decline
09/24/03Supported Housing for Homeless People is More Effective, But More Costly
09/24/03 Yale Medical School Applications Strong Despite Nationwide Decline
09/23/03 Universities Can Help Save Lives by Adopting Innovative Intellectual Property Policies
09/23/03 Universities Can Help Save Lives by Adopting Innovative Intellectual Property Policies
09/22/03 Patients and Caregivers Often Disagree on Health Outcomes Following Treatment
09/22/03Discovery of Abnormal Sugars Present in Many Cancers Could Lead to New Drug Targets
09/22/03 Patients and Caregivers Often Disagree on Health Outcomes Following Treatment
09/16/03Impact of SARS Explored at Yale Weekend Workshop
09/16/03Impact of SARS Explored at Yale Weekend Workshop
09/09/03New High School Internship at Yale OB-GYN Promotes Interest in Science
09/09/03Estrogen Improves Short Term Memory and Oral Reading in Midlife Postmenopausal Women, Yale Researchers Find
09/03/03African-American Women Who Receive Standard Treatment for Breast Cancer Have Similar Survival Rates as White Women

 

August 
08/27/03Naltrexone Prescribed in Doctor's Offices Effective in Treating Alcohol Dependence
08/25/03Yale Data Analysis Shows Birth Defects Resulting From Vietnam Veterans' Exposure to Agent Orange
08/22/03Yale Expert Warns in New Book that Today's Children May Lead Shorter Lives than their Parents Because of Obesity
08/22/03Physicians of the Yale Medical Group Will Continue to Care for Patients Despite Possible Job Action by Clerical and Technical Employees
08/20/03Brain Activities Differ in Problem Gamblers
08/11/03Yale Child Study Center Receives $25,000 Grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
08/01/03Female Veterans More Likely than Other Women To Become Homeless
08/01/03In Memoriam: Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Preeminent Yale Neuroscientist who Made Groundbreaking Discoveries in Working Memory and Explored the Brain's Frontal Lobe

 

July 
07/29/03Professorship at Yale School of Medicine Created In Honor of Dr. Donald J. Cohen
07/22/03In Memoriam: Former Deputy Dean of Yale School of Medicine,
Renowned Gastroenterologist and AIDS Clinician Robert Donaldson
07/17/03Eye Black Grease More Effective at Reducing Glare and Improving Visual Contrast than Anti-Glare Stickers, Yale Researchers Find
07/17/03Yale Researcher Named W.M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar
07/14/03Newly Invented Endometrial Function Test (EFT®) Solves the Puzzle of Unexplained Infertility, Yale Researcher Reports
07/10/03Conference at Yale for Schools of the 21st Century
07/08/03Institute for OneWorld Health Licenses Potent Therapy from Yale and University of Washington to Treat Chagas, One of the Largest Parasitic Diseases in the World
07/07/03Diuretic May Help Increase Brain Blood Flow in Cocaine Addicts
07/02/03Yale Researcher Discovers "Brain Temperature Tunnel" That For The First Time Allows External Continuous Measurement of Brain Temperature
07/02/03New Center Opens for Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility And Yale Maternal-Fetal Medicine
07/02/03Diabetes and Heart Failure Patients Often Treated with Diabetes Medications Considered Unsafe, Yale and Denver Health Medical Researchers Report
07/02/03Yale Researcher Discovers "Brain Temperature Tunnel" That For The First Time Allows External Continuous Measurement of Brain Temperature

 

June 
06/30/03Yale Researchers Identify Two Types of Childhood Reading Disability With Different Brain Patterns and Different Outcomes
06/26/03New Haven Public School Students Prepare for Careers in Science and Medicine with Yale's SCHOLAR Program
06/23/03Leading Neurosurgeon Named Acting Dean of Yale School of Medicine
06/19/03Health Problems and Financial Setbacks Risk Factors for Women and Smoking
06/18/03Adolescents Are Neurologically More Vulnerable to Addictions
06/17/03New York Magazine Names 55 Yale Physicians Among the Region's Best Doctors
06/16/03Yale Symposium June 17 Honors Researcher Who Helped Pioneer Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging For Biological Studies
06/06/03Yale Names Public Health Leader as New Trustee
06/04/03Yale Receives $2 Million Medical Research Endowment from Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation Dr. Sonia Caprio Named First Bayer Fellow
06/04/03Yale Receives $2 Million Medical Research Endowment from Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation Dr. Sonia Caprio Named First Bayer Fellow
06/03/03Epstein-Barr Researcher Wins Prestigious MERIT Award

 

May 
05/30/03Hyperglycemia Common in Patients Receiving Clozapine
05/28/03Patients with Epilepsy More Vulnerable to Behavioral Side Effects Than People with Other Brain Disorders
05/20/03Black Patients with Heart Failure Have Similar Quality of Care, but Better Survival Than White Patients, Yale Researchers Report
05/20/03Yale University School of Nursing Researcher Tapped for Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Veterans' Affairs
05/15/03Tiny RNAs Control an Important Developmental Regulator
05/12/03Major Depression Common Among People Caring for Dying Loved Ones
05/09/03Yale Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
05/08/03Dyslexia Emerges from the Shadows with "Overcoming Dyslexia," a New Book by Yale Researcher Sally Shaywitz
05/08/03Search for Genes and Risk Factors That Increase Infant Asthma Focus of Yale/Oxford Collaboration
05/07/03Despite the Risks of Infection, Unprotected Oral Sex is Common Among Adolescents
05/07/03Yale Researcher Who Studies Quality of Care for Older People Wins John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators
05/06/03Mice without Nogo Exhibit Axonal Regeneration
05/05/03Running Wheels and Toys Improve Memory of Aging Mice

 

April 
04/30/03NIH Director Elias Zerhouni to Lead Opening of Yale's Newest Research and Teaching Facility
04/28/03Delirium Prevented by Sticking to Non-Drug Therapeutic Regimens, Yale Researchers Find
04/23/03Smokers Who Want to Quit Sought by Yale Researchers
04/23/03ale Receives $2.1 million for Donaghue Initiative in Biomedical & Behavioral Research Ethics
04/23/03Yale Receives $2.1 million for Donaghue Initiative in Biomedical & Behavioral Research Ethics
04/21/03There May be Twice as Many Genes in the Human Genome than previously thought, Yale Researchers Find
04/21/03Impact of Religious Diversity and Tolerance on Community Health Care Addressed at Yale School of Nursing Forum
04/21/03here May be Twice as Many Genes in the Human Genome than previously thought, Yale Researchers Find
04/17/03Antipsychotic Drug Risperidone Reduces Tics in Children and Adults with Tourette Syndrome
04/16/03Immunotherapy for Macular Degeneration
04/16/03In Memoriam: World Renowned Yale Imunobiologist and "Father of Innate Immunity," Charles Janeway
04/11/03New "Chemical Genetic" Tool Forces Cells to Target and Destroy Harmful Proteins Within Those Cells
04/10/03Yale Offers Free Short Term Therapy As Part of Neurological Study
04/10/03NARSAD Awards 13 Grants to Yale Psychiatric Researchers
04/10/03Low Carbohydrate Diets May Not Aid Weight Loss, Yale and Stanford Researchers Find
04/09/03Newly established Award will Recognize the Outstanding Creative Expression of Yale Nurses
04/08/03In Memoriam: Memorial Service April 19 for Yale Psychiatrist Ira Levine
04/03/03Yale School of Medicine Chosen as a Training Site for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
04/03/03In Memoriam: Yale Professor Frederic Lawrence Holmes Pioneered History of Science Program at Yale
04/02/03Yale Conference to Address HIV/AIDS Inequalities at the Global and National Level
04/01/03Advances in Multiple Sclerosis Research to be Presented at Meeting Hosted by Yale and Veterans

 

March 
03/31/03Chemo-resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells can be Destroyed, Yale Researchers Report
03/31/03Actor Christopher Reeve to Speak at Yale
03/18/03In Memoriam: William W. L. Glenn, Pioneering Yale Cardiovascular Surgeon Who Developed First Radio Frequency Pacemakerd
03/05/03Yale Will Host Meeting April 13-15 of Leading Researchers in the Role of Glutamate in Schizophrenia and other Psychiatric Disorders
03/04/03Yale Symposium Addresses Recovery from Mental Illness

 

February 
02/28/03Physicians of the Yale Medical Group Will Continue to Care for Patients Despite Job Action by Clerical and Technical Employees
02/20/03Yale Researchers Find New Target in the Brain to Regulate Appetite and Food
02/19/03Carl S. Feen to Chair Yale Cardiovascular Research Fund at Yale School of Medicine
02/14/03Parents Are Not at Risk of Heart Attack while Watching Child Being Anesthesized
02/14/03Celebrating the Legacy of Edward Bouchet
02/11/03Verbal and IQ Scores Improve As Premature Infants Grow, Yale Researchers Report
02/06/03Twenty Percent of People with Epilepsy Develop Drug Resistant Seizures

 

January 
01/30/03Yale Center for Genomics and Proteomics Awards First Round of Pilot Grants
01/28/03Magnetic Stimulation Helps Alleviate Auditory Hallucinations, Yale Study Shows
01/27/03Bright Beginnings Program Receives $25,000 Grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
01/24/03In Memoriam: Influential Yale Psychiatrist Stephen Fleck, who Worked to Help Legalize Birth Control in the State
01/23/03Yale Researcher Enrolling Women with Vulvodynia in Treatment Study
01/22/03Quality of Care in Hospitals Influenced by the Role Administrators Play, Yale Researchers Find
01/22/03Parkinson's Drug May Help People Quit Smoking, Yale Study Shows
01/22/03Yale Researcher Designs More Accurate Measure of Mortality Risk for the Elderly
01/21/03Financial Conflicts of Interest Can Influence Biomedical Research Outcomes, Yale Researchers Show
01/14/03Abdominal and Total Body Fat Loss Linked to Regular Exercise, Researcher at Yale Finds