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  • New drug reverses Alzheimer’s effects in mice

    Yale scientists have reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in mice with a new drug. “A single dose of the drug results in improved... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 12 2014 05:06pm

  • Obesity, diabetes, and the brain

    It’s an exaggeration to say that diabetes and obesity are all in your head. But a Yale research team has made two new discoveries about the... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | August 5 2014 03:30pm

  • In a recession, your major matters—or at least it used to

    Graduating from college during a recession disrupts people’s early careers—not just their employment prospects, but also their starting... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 25 2014 05:08pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • Hair today, bald recently

    In eight months, a young man from Connecticut went from completely bald to thickly thatched, thanks to a breakthrough treatment by a Yale dermatologist.... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 24 2014 05:07pm

  • Lab-made flu viruses not worth the risk, researchers say

    Citing the Nuremburg Code for ethical research—developed in the wake of Nazi medical experiments—epidemiologists from Yale and Harvard are... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | May 27 2014 11:26am

  • The eight-legged pain pill

    They call it "toxineering": engineering toxins, in this case from spider venom, for medical use—in this case, pain relief. And while a recent Yale... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | February 17 2014 03:40pm

  • Heat stroke? Try cold stroke

    I get pretty tired of those local news stories about how we should be afraid of the weather here in the temperate zone. Killer cold! Killer heat!... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | February 12 2014 05:23pm

  • Us vs. them: as simple as ABC?

    If you, like me, are discouraged by our human instinct to focus on superficial differences rather than fundamental similarities, a new psychology... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | January 28 2014 10:40am

  • Of mice, men, microbes—and women on the podium

    How can science organizations get more women to speak at their conventions? Two scientists put their own group under the microscope and came up with a... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | January 15 2014 12:14pm

  • Yale blue meets NHPD blue

    "The law" means one thing to those who study and teach it in ivy-covered classrooms. It has a very different meaning to those who enforce the law, and those... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | July 19 2013 07:44am

  • New melanoma drug stirs excitement

    The test results are early—and sponsored by the drug manufacturer—but scientists and journalists alike are excited about the prospects of... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | June 4 2013 12:49pm

  • Melanoma survivors keep tanning

    Melanoma, the skin cancer that kills a person every hour in the United States, is not enough to keep some survivors out of the sun—or the... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | April 10 2013 07:43am

  • Pharma freebies at med school: what's the Rx?

    A decade ago, medical students were raking in the pharma swag—receiving gifts or attending industry-sponsored events once a week, on average. Then... Read on
    Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | March 1 2013 08:42am