Updated: Friday, July 4, 2008 at 8:35am
Less than one day after being struck by a car near the Yale School of Medicine campus, Mila Rainof MED ’08 died Sunday morning at Yale-New Haven hospital. She was 27. The Santa Monica, Calif., native had likely been exercising at the Harkness Dormitory at 367 Cedar St. prior to the accident. On her way back to her York Street apartment at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, Rainof was...
Yale School of Medicine will eliminate the required parental contribution for families making up to $100,000 annually beginning next year, Dean Robert Alpern announced Monday. The sweeping initiative aims to reduce student doctor debt for middle-income students and curb the attrition of medical-school graduates in lower-paying specialties. The policy — funded by a $1.1...
About 2,200 students, academics and professionals from all 50 states and 55 countries descended on New Haven over the weekend to exchange ideas about improving global health. The gathering, part of the fifth annual Unite for Sight Conference, included talks and panel discussions on a range of global-health issues. Although Unite For Sight focuses primarily on vision and...
Not all breast cancers are created equal. New genetics research by Olufunmilayo Olopade, a professor in the Department of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, suggests that the type and severity of breast cancer are largely dependent on patients’ ethnicity. Olopade determined that genes belonging to African-American women often have mutations...
Even as scientists across the country struggle to work around federal restrictions on stem cell research, Yale researchers will now enjoy the benefits of almost $6 million in grants. Twelve Yale stem cell research projects received grants totaling $5.6 million from the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee on Tuesday. The money was distributed as part of...
No one wants his cardiovascular surgeon bumping elbows with his neurosurgeon in the ER. And those same cardiologists don’t want to be bumping elbows with the neurologists in the lab. But with space shortages becoming increasingly acute, researchers at the Yale School of Medicine are often forced into such cramped conditions, interviews sugest. Clinical sciences at the...
Mary Tinetti and colleagues perform research on aging-related health conditions at the Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, a foundation funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1992, Tinetti said, who is director of the Pepper Center and the Yale Program on Aging. But a few days ago, Tinetti said, they were informed that their annual grant had...
Yale placed first in three sets of rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” released Friday. The survey includes rankings of both professional schools and graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Yale Law School topped the list of law schools — a feat it has accomplished every year since the rankings began in...
The word “pre-med” may recall an image of the constantly frazzled student with dark under-eye bags and a coffee cup in hand — at least at Yale College. But this image is far from accurate for some students who actually manage to complete the pre-med requirements — those at the University’s medical school. With no grades — not even a pass/fail system — for...
Facing ongoing complaints of sexual harassment on campus, the Yale School of Medicine will continue to examine existing protocols and implement new procedures for addressing and eliminating incidents of sexual harassment and assault on campus, medical school Dean Robert Alpern said Wednesday. In an e-mail to the entire medical school community, Alpern sent a report —...
Coughing, sniffling, runny noses, headaches, muscle pain and high fever. For Elis looking to escape flu symptoms such as these, Yale University Health Services vaccinates hundreds of students at each residential college each year — but this year, immunizations may not have been as successful as expected. The flu vaccine has proven to be much less effective this season...
For anybody who has ever known the pain of a broken bone, the work of Dr. Agnès Vignery may come as a relief. Dr. Vignery, an associate professor of orthopaedics at the Yale School of Medicine, has spent the last seven years working alongside a team of researchers, from both Yale and elsewhere, to perfect a potentially revolutionary bone growth procedure. The procedure...
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