The medical community is noticing a rise in cancer diagnoses for adults under 45 — up nearly 80% since 1990. Dr. Veda Giri, division chief for Clinical Cancer Genetics and co-director of the Early ...

Professor Stephen Waxman, pioneer in non-addictive pain therapies that paved the way for a new class of pain medication, honored ...

The hospice movement got its start in the United States right here in New Haven. In the late 1960s, former Yale School of Nursing (YSN) Dean Florence Schorske Wald attended a speech given by hospice ...

Rates of self-reported cognitive disability among U.S. adults are on the increase, driven largely by a surprising jump among young adults ages 18 to 39, according to a new Yale study. In their ...

In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan, made history — as the first city in the world to add small amounts of fluoride to its public water supply. At the time, studies showed communities with higher levels ...

A new Yale-led study shows that Americans who self-report having positive attitudes toward non-Americans actually often demonstrate implicit anti-immigrant biases. These automatic negative impressions ...

Yale College student Zakira Bakhshi has received a grant from Projects for Peace, a global program that supports college students who are developing innovative, community-centered responses to ...

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have ...

Yale physicists have discovered a sophisticated, previously unknown set of “modes” within the human ear that put important constraints on how the ear amplifies faint sounds, tolerates noisy blasts, ...

Friends tend to share common interests, tastes, lifestyles, and other traits, but a new Yale-led study demonstrates that similarities among buddies can also include the makeup of the microbes lining ...

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

Future generations of Yale quantum scientists, engineers, and physicists likely won’t know the details of the monumental effort underway today to reshape the upper slope of Science Hill on campus. But ...