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• Y's Therapeutics Clinical-Stage Compound YSPSL Granted Orphan Status In U.S. And Europe
  ... Y's Therapeutics, Inc. saidtoday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the EuropeanMedicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) have granted Orphan Drug Designation and Orphan Medicinal Product Designation, respectively, for its investigationaldrug YSPSL (rPSGL-Ig) in the prevention of graft dysfunction in kidneytransplantation. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Y-Chromosome Microdeletions And Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
  ...UroToday.com - Dewan and colleagues conducted a study which demonstrated that the prevalence of y-chromosome microdeletions was higher in patients(couples) undergoing evaluation for recurrent pregnancy loss (n=17) compared to 18 fertile couples without pregnancy loss and 10 infertile men. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:00 EST
  
• Y.C. Fung Wins Russ Prize
  ...The National Academy of Engineering has announced that Yuan-Cheng "Bert" Fung will receive the 2007 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, a $500,000 award recognizing engineering achievement that significantly improves the human condition. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:00 EST
  
• Yale And Clinton Foundation Launch Training Program For Ethiopian Healthcare Professionals
  ...Researchers at Yale recently traveled to Ethiopia to introduce a program to provide healthcare managers and workers with extensive training and practice in various areas of hospital and healthcare management. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:00 EST
  
• Yale And NFCR Launch Research Center For Cancer Drug Design And Discovery
  ...Yale University and the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) announced the establishment of an NFCR Center for Anti-Cancer Drug Design and Discovery to develop new beta-peptide inhibitors that will play critical roles in the fight against many types of cancer. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars Begin With TheraLogics
  ...The Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars series begins its fall schedule on Wednesday, September 20 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium of Yale Medical School, 300 Cedar Street.This program will feature TheraLogics, Inc., a technology start-up company that is unusual because it has not received -- and is not seeking -- venture capital investments. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:00 EST
  
• Yale Biologists 'trick' Viruses Into Extinction
  ...While human changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the logic by trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, according to a report in Ecology Letters.To avoid going extinct a population must not only survive, but also reproduce. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:00 EST
  
• Yale Biologists 'Trick' Viruses Into Extinction
  ...While human changes to the environment cause conservation biologists to worry about species extinction, Yale biologists are reversing the logic by trying to trap viruses in habitats that force their extinction, according to a report in Ecology Letters....
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
  
• Yale Biomedical Engineers Receive Prestigious Early Career Awards
  ... Two assistant professors ofBiomedical Engineering at Yale have been named recipients ofWallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Translational Research Awards in Biomedical Engineering. The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving human healthcare by supporting translational research in biomedical engineering. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Yale Cell Biologist, Joel Rosenbaum, To Receive American Society For Cell Biology's Highest Honor For Scientific Research In Cell Biology
  ...Joel Rosenbaum, professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and faculty member at Yale since 1967, has been named the recipient of the 2006 E. B. Wilson Medal, the American Society for Cell Biology's highest honor for scientific research in cell biology. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Yale Child Study Center Receives Over $3.5 Million NIH Grant For Autism Research
  ...The Yale Child Study Center has received a $3.5 million National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant for an ongoing, multidisciplinary research program on autism and related developmental disorders.The five-year research program focuses on developmental aspects and outcomes for affected patients. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:00 EST
  
• Yale Early Stage Ovarian Cancer Detection Technology Licensed By LabCorp®
  ...New Haven, Conn. -- Yale University Office of Cooperative Research today announced that it has granted an exclusive license agreement with Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) for the commercialization of the university''s blood testing technology for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC)... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 26 Feb 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Yale Expands Research Using Magnetic Stimulation For Schizophrenia
  ...Yale School of Medicine researchers are recruiting patients nationally for a clinical trial using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to help still the voices that are so troubling to some persons with schizophrenia....
  ScienceDaily - Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Yale Expands Research Using Magnetic Stimulation For Schizophrenia
  ...New Haven, Conn.--Yale School of Medicine researchers are recruiting patients nationally for a clinical trial using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to help still the voices that are so troubling to some persons with schizophrenia."These hallucinations, which consist of spoken speech that are labeled ''voices'' by patients themselves, are often very disabling and resistant to currently available medication therapies," said Ralph Hoffman, M... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:00 EST
  
• Yale Faculty to Direct $6.9 Million VA Study of PTSD
  ...Yale School of Medicine will direct a $6... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:00 EST
  
• Yale Helps Organize Conference To Identify New Treatments For Tourette Syndrome, September 10-12, 2006 In Washington, D.C.
  ...Leading scientists, including several from Yale School of Medicine, will gather in Washington, D.C., September 10-12 to identify new approaches for the treatment of Tourette Syndrome (TS), a familial neurological disorder that begins in childhood and is characterized by chronic motor and vocal tics. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Yale Immunobiologist Named To Institute Of Medicine
  ...Richard Flavell, M.D., Sterling Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, and chair of the Section of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, has been named to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), it was announced this week. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Yale immunologist studying host responses to infection named 2005 Searle Scholar
  ...John D MacMicking, an assistant professor recently recruited to the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine, has been named as a 2005 Searle Scholar and will receive $240,000 during the next three years to support his research program on novel host defense pathways to infection... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 18 May 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Yale Licenses Potential Anti-HIV Agent To Oncolys BioPharma Of Japan
  ...Yale University today announced that it has concluded a license agreement granting Oncolys BioPharma, Inc. of Tokyo the global exclusive right for clinical and business development of a novel compound for the treatment of HIV. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Yale Ophthalmology Researcher Named Pfizer Visiting Professor
  ...Glaucoma researcher Miguel Coca-Prados, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Yale School of Medicine, recently completed a professorship at Pfizer's Groton Laboratories as the 2006 Yale-Pfizer Global Discovery Visiting Professor. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Yale Ovarian Cancer Detection Technology Licensed In China By SurExam
  ...Yale University Office of Cooperative Research today announced that it has granted an exclusive license agreement with the Chinese company SurExam Life Science and Technology (Shenzhen) Co. for the commercialization of the university's blood testing technology for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Yale Procedure Cuts Recurrence Of Aggressive Uterine Cancer
  ...A state-of-the-art treatment program developed at Yale School of Medicine increases survival from the aggressive uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC) and spares some patients the need for additional therapy....
  ScienceDaily - Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Yale Professor Wins Dru Carlson Award For Ultrasound Research
  ...Yale School of Medicine researcher Joshua A. Copel, M.D., professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Pediatrics, recently received the Dru Carlson Award for Research in Ultrasound and Genetics from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) at their 27th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
  
• Yale Professor, AIDS Advocate Dr. Alvin Novick Dies at Age 79
  ...Dr Alvin Novick, a Yale University biologist who in 1982 ended his 25-year study of the sonar systems of bats to become an advocate for people living with HIV/AIDS, died of prostate cancer on April 10 at the age of 79, the http://www... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 05 May 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Yale program cuts recurrence of aggressive uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC)
  ...A state-of-the-art treatment program developed at Yale School of Medicine increases survival from the aggressive uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC) and spares some patients the need for additional therapy. The results are presented in the lead article of September''s Gynecologic Oncology... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:00 EST
  
• Yale Receives $6.6 Million To Study Age-Related Loss Of Ability To Smell
  ...Yale School of Medicine has received a $6.6 million grant to study why the olfactory function declines as people age-research that could have implications for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodegenerative diseases. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Yale Recruits Patients For Alzheimer''s Vaccine Trial
  ...Yale School of Medicine is recruiting patients with Alzheimer''s disease to test a vaccine that appears to slow the accumulation of beta amyloid plaque in the brain....
  ScienceDaily - Thu, 14 Jul 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Yale Researchers Find Environmental Toxins Disruptive To Hearing In Mammals
  ...Yale School of Medicine researchers have new data showing chloride ions are critical to hearing in mammals, which builds on previous research showing a chemical used to keep barnacles off boats might disrupt the balance of these ions in ear cells....
  ScienceDaily - Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Yale Researchers Find New Molecular Target For Obesity
  ... Mice bred without the enzyme MKP-1 are resistant to weight gain despite consuming high fat foods and eating more than control mice, according to a research study published online in Cell Metabolism. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:00 EST
  
• Yale Researchers Find New Molecular Target For Obesity
  ...Mice bred without the enzyme MKP-1 are resistant to weight gain despite consuming high fat foods and eating more than control mice, according to a research study published online in Cell Metabolism....
  ScienceDaily - Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:00 EST