Yale technology translates to sonic golf training tool
New Haven, Conn. -- , has combined his passion for golf and his professional expertise to produce a unique and effective realtime audio biofeedback device for teaching and training golf....... Grober developed a golf club that has motiondetecting sensors, similar to those used for safety airbag deployment in cars, embedded in the shaft. Sonic Golf's unique feature is the use of realtime audio fe...Yale authors raise concerns regarding regionalized heart attack care
Calls to regionalize the care of patients with heart attacks are premature, and do not account for potential unintended consequences, according to a commentary by Yale researchers published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)....... "Much of the enthusiasm for the regionalization of heart attack care has focused on what its upsides may be, without adequately considering...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a gene for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) on a region of chromosome 1, leading the way for targeted treatment for this widespread eye disease that causes blindness in millions of people. ...... The study, led by Josephine Hoh, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (EPH) at Yale School of Medicine, wil...Yale opens Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) in India
On a recent trip to India, Yale President Richard C. Levin and a delegation of Yale officials formally opened a new office for Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) housed at YRG Care, a nonprofit organization based in Chennai.... ...The office will operate three research projects relating to HIV and AIDS throughout India: Project Parivartan, supported by a threeyear grant f...Yale researcher studying acupuncture to reduce back pain in pregnancy
New Haven, Conn.--A Yale researcher and expert in the practice of acupuncture is conducting a three-year study on the effectiveness of this ancient Chinese practice in reducing low back pain during pregnancy. ......The study is funded with a $400,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health and will include 150 women who are at least 24 weeks pregnant. The lead researcher, Shu-Ming Wang, M.D....Technology that could double the effectiveness of cancer drugs studied at Yale
To identify the best treatment for recurrent ovarian cancer, researchers at Yale School of Medicine are studying a technology called the Yale apoptosis assay in combination with another technology called the ChemoFX assay, which could double the response rate to existing drugs....... In patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, it is often difficult to select an effective treatment because the tumo...Yale cardiovascular researcher named Bayer Fellow 2004-05
The Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corporation has given the 2004 Bayer Award to Raymond R. Russell, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine in the section of cardiology at Yale School of Medicine....... In 2003, Bayer created a $2 million endowment to help advance cutting-edge medical research at Yale School of Medicine. Through this program, the Bayer Endowment for Scholars in Medicine and Manage...Yale to study marijuana, ecstasy and teen cognitive deficits
Yale School of Medicine has received a $1.7 million grant to study whether a history of use of MDMA (ecstasy) and marijuana is associated with cognitive deficits in adolescents....... The study, which will include 200 adolescent participants, also will examine whether sustained abstinence from drug use leads to recovery of cognitive function in this population....... The grant builds on a preli...Yale University's Levy wins The Gerontological Society of America's 2003 Margret M. Baltes Award
The Gerontological Society of America has chosen Dr. Becca Levy of Yale University as the 2003 recipient of the Margret M. Baltes Early Career Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology. This distinguished honor, given annually, recognizes outstanding early career contributions in behavioral and social gerontology. ......The award presentation will take place at GSA's 56th Annual Scientific Meeti...Yale expert warns children may lead shorter lives than their parents because of obesity
New Haven, Conn. -- "Food Fight, " a new book by a Yale expert on nutrition and obesity, warns that today's children might be the first generation in modern history to live shorter lives than their parents because of poor diet....... "The food and physical activity environments we offer our children is a recipe for obesity, and much human suffering will be the result," said Kelly Brownell, autho...Yale researchers identify two types of childhood reading disability
Yale researchers have, for the first time, identified two types of reading disability: a primarily inherent type with higher cognitive ability (poor readers who compensate for disability), and a more environmentally influenced type with lower cognitive skills and attendance at more disadvantaged schools (persistently poor readers).... ...The findings, published in the July 1 issue of Biological P...OneWorld Health licenses compounds from Yale, U of Washington to treat major parasitic diseases
San Francisco, Calif. July 8, 2003 -- The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, announced today it has licensed a novel class of high-potency compounds from Yale University and the University of Washington that could result in medicines for the developing and developed worlds.... ...The agreement gives OneWorld Health the exclusive licen...Yale researchers find potential target for treatment and prevention of osteoporosis
New Haven, Conn. By identifying a genetic mutation that causes extremely high bone density in people, Yale researchers have found a potential target for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis, it was reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.... ... The finding was made when the senior investigators, Richard Lifton, M.D., chair of the Department of Genetics at Yale School of...Yale study reinforces theory that babies count
New Haven, Conn. Babies who look longer at certain objects are counting, not just looking at new shapes and textures, according to a study by Yale University researchers....... Karen Wynn and Paul Bloom, professors of psychology, said their study was intended to address the debate about whether infants are counting when they look at objects, or whether they are simply responding to color, size a...Yale researchers report on brain activity believed related to sudden infant death syndrome
New Haven, Conn. Neurons thought to play a key role in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are located near some of the largest arteries in the brain, according to a study by a Yale School of Medicine research team published in this weeks issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience....... The senior investigator, George Richerson, M.D., associate professor of neurology and physiology, said his teams...Second patient with multiple sclerosis undergoes groundbreaking surgery at Yale
New Haven, Conn. A 29-year-old man with multiple sclerosis is the second patient to undergo transplantation surgery at Yale in an effort to repair myelin, the protective brain and spinal cord sheath that is destroyed by the disease, Yale researchers have reported.... ...The surgery took place in two stages March 6-7 and the patient was discharged from Yale-New Haven Hospital March 10. The young...Yale study shows 25 percent of obese children are at high risk for developing diabetes
New Haven, Conn. Twenty five percent of obese children and 21 percent of obese adolescents tested by Yale researchers were glucose intolerant and at high risk for developing diabetes, according to an article published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.... ... Sonia Caprio, associate professor of endocrinology and pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and senior author of the articl...New index developed by Yale researcher to assess the risk of mortality in an elderly population
New Haven, Conn. In order to foster sound health care programs and policies concerning an aging population, a Yale researcher has devised a new index that forecasts which patients are most likely to die within one year after being discharged from the hospital.... ..."Its very important to be able to compare how sick patients are across populations, across hospitals and across studies," said Shar...Yale study of hospital website ratings finds mixed results
New Haven, Conn. Websites that rate hospitals performance may provide mixed results, according to a study by Yale researchers published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.... ...There is increasing interest in using health data to help patients make choices about hospitals. A common approach is to use publicly available billing data from Medicare to compare rates of dea...Yale-designed protocol addresses problems that are often overlooked in the elderly
New Haven, Conn. Yale researchers have designed a geriatric assessment protocol to identify problems that often go undetected in elderly patients, such as depression, incontinence, vision and hearing loss and driving safety issues....... The guided care protocol provides a standard approach for evaluating 13 clinical issues that earlier studies showed are significant problems among the elderly,...Yale researcher receives $1.4 million grant to study the hypocretin cells involved in narcolepsy
New Haven, Conn. A Yale researcher has received a $1.4 million grant to study a neurotransmitter whose loss in the brain is believed responsible for narcolepsy, an often misunderstood disease marked by an uncontrollable desire to sleep.... ..."Its profoundly debilitating," said Anthony van den Pol, professor of neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine. "For example, narcoleptics may go to work an...A study of HIV-infected prisoners shows that they are more likely to accept antiretroviral therapy (ART)...if they have trust in the treatment, their physicians and in medical institutions, highlighting the important role that trust plays in...HIV therapy, Yale researchers report. ... ...The researchers also found that lack of social support, complexity of medication regimen and adverse side effe...Artwork can sharpen medical diagnostic skills, Yale researchers report
Four years after starting a tutorial designed to improve medical students' diagnostic and observational...skills with artwork, Yale researchers have proven their theory in a new study published in the September 5 issue of the Journal of...the American Medical Association (JAMA). ... ..."Doctors have to be taught to pick up on details that are often overlooked and first-year medical students who t.... To alleviate vaginal dyspareunia or dryness, a painful symptom of menopause that causes sexual. dysfunction, Yale researchers have created a topical estrogen that eliminates side effects of conventional estrogen and that in. the future could also alleviate some symptoms of aging skin. . . "The topical estrogen we've created confines itself to a specific region of the body and helps eliminate....Studies presented today by a Yale researcher at the annual National Kidney Foundation Meeting in Orlando, Florida, show that midodrine hydrochloride, a medication normally used to treat low blood pressure, may also help kidney disease patients avoid some of the serious side effects of dialysis.. ."The results of the studies show that midodrine not only effectively blunts the fall in blood press....When VA hospitals cut inpatient psychiatric care, there is no overall reduction in.effective care and clinical outcomes for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients, Yale researchers report.in the February issue of 15 Medical Care. . ."We found no loss of overall effectiveness at programs that shortened their average length of stay," said.Robert Rosenheck, professor of psychiatry and in th....New Haven, Conn. Researchers are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in a pathway that prevents axon regeneration, a Yale researcher says.. .Stephen Strittmatter, M.D., who holds the Vincent Coates Chair of neurology, as well as associate professor of neurology and neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine, said he and his collaborat...Results of Yale study confirm aspirin helpful in preventing a first heart attack
. New Haven, Conn. An overview by a Yale researcher of four studies examining the use of aspirin and the reduction of heart attacks in persons with no previous history of cardiovascular disease shows aspirin remains a good preventive measure.. . The studies included more than 51,000 people and 2,284 "vascular events": vascular disease-related death, cardiac or cerebral; nonfatal heart att...Acupuncture is promising treatment for cocaine addiction, Yale researchers find
.In the first such finding from a controlled study, Yale researchers have successfully used acupuncture to treat cocaine addiction, a disorder for which there are few effective treatments. . .Published in the August 14 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, study results showed that participants who received auricular acupuncture -- needles inserted into specific parts of the outer ear -- w....A therapeutic cocaine vaccine designed to suppress the high addicts get from taking cocaine is safe and produced cocaine antibodies in humans, a Yale study finds. . .Thomas Kosten, M.D., principal investigator on the phase 1 study, and his team administered the vaccine to 34 former cocaine abusers living in a residential treatment facility. . .The vaccine, TA-CD, is designed to generate drug-sp...More research needed to gauge estrogen's effects on Alzheimer's disease, Yale scientists say
. In response to a new study showing that estrogen does not slow the effects of Alzheimer's disease, Yale researchers say more studies are needed to answer key questions about estrogen's possible role in preventing or delaying the disease.. . Sally Shaywitz, M.D. and Bennett Shaywitz, M.D. wrote an editorial about the study, which was done by researchers at the University of California at Irvin....After having heart attacks, patients with mental illnesses are significantly less likely to undergo cardiovascular procedures than patients without mental disorders, Yale researchers say. . ."Having a mental disorder reduces a patient's chances of receiving cardiovascular procedures by up to 32 percent," said Benjamin Druss, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and epidemiology and public h.... . . New Haven, Conn. -- The United States embargo against Cuba has contributed to several public health catastrophes, among them an epidemic of blindness due to a dramatic decrease in the supply of nutrients, a Yale physician says.. . There also have been epidemics of infants ingesting lye, which is used when soap is not available, and an outbreak of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a form of paralys....Yale researchers have developed a new method for recording the electrical activities within living cells, which could lead to better treatment for diseases like Parkinson's, and provide clues to how learning occurs. . ."This new technique offers the hope of understanding and treating degenerative neurological diseases such as Parkinson's," said Leonard Kaczmarek, M.D., professor of pharmacology....New Haven, Conn. -- A Yale study of complication rates from two radiation implant therapies for prostate cancer shows that the newer.therapy, Palladium-103, has fewer long-term side effects than Iodine-125, an older, more commonly prescribed therapy. . ."While both implants were extraordinarily successful at preventing major long-term complications, Palladium-103 was superior to.Iodine-125 in p....New Haven, Conn. -- Repeated exposure to low-dose amphetamines can cause deficits in cognitive performance that last for several years after the exposure ends, offering insight into potential harmful effects of chronic substance abuse in humans, a Yale study has found. . ."While previous studies show that acute amphetamine injections can impair cognition, our report is the first to demonstrate...Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
. New Haven, Conn.--Yale and state scientists have developed a new,.simpler and more reliable blood test to detect a recently discovered disease.called ehrlichiosis, which is carried by deer ticks.. .The test will make it less cumbersome for patients with the telltale flu-like.symptoms to be screened for the disease. It also will allow researchers to.determine whether ehrlichiosis may be....New Haven, Conn.--Yale scientists have discovered that the growth of brain.cells, which normally ends in adolescence, can be re-stimulated in mature.neurons with a molecular mechanism known as Notch signaling.. .Because Notch signaling also may be involved in the progression of degenerative.diseases like Alzheimer's, the results published in the October 22 issue of.Science could help scientists....New Haven, Conn. -- Yale Medical School researchers will examine why some smokers.are resistant to current smoking cessation treatments with a $10 million grant.from The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Cancer Institute.(NCI) and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.. .The five-year grant is part of an $84 million initiative by these three.organizations to create national Tra...Yale cancer center to test cervical cancer prevention drug: NCI grant funds research
.(NEW HAVEN) -- The Yale Cancer Center has been selected by the National Cancer.Institute (NCI) to conduct a clinical trial of a new drug designed to suppress.infections by the human papilloma virus (HPV) so as to prevent the development.of cervical cancer. . .David Austin, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry at Yale University, first.predicted on the basis of studies with colleague Rolf Lo...