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Suffer from seasonal allergies? These tips will help you find relief

Allergist and immunologist Florence Ida Hsu often approaches her work like a detective would. “I spend a lot of time asking patient questions regarding not just what their symptoms are but what led up ...
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Yale names Derek Chang and Philippe Costeletos as successor trustees

Yale President Maurie McInnis has announced the appointments of Derek Chang ’89, the president and chief executive officer of Liberty Media, and Philippe Costeletos ’87, the founder of the private ...
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‘Race for the future’: Which countries — and what values — will prevail in science?

Speaking to a packed room in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday, Fineberg likened the U.S.’s relationship to science in the modern era to a key moment during the Cold War. “This is a Sputnik moment,” he ...
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Hwansoo Kim named the next head of Morse College

Hwansoo Kim, a professor of religious studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed the next head of Morse College, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis announced in a message to the ...
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Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA): 'Mrs. Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina'

British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) describes his new work, “Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina,” which was created especially for the exhibition “Enlightened ...
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Some People Would Give Life or Limb Not to be Fat

Marlene Schwartz Nearly half of the people responding to an online survey about obesity said they would give up a year of their life rather than be fat, according to a study by the Rudd Center for ...
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In the media

How to prepare for an unpredictable allergy season: Geoffrey Chupp of Yale’s Center for Asthma and Airway Diseases explains ...
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Oral Contraceptive Effective in Controlling Premenstrual Disorder

Kimberly Yonkers, M.D. A new study led by researchers at Yale School of Medicine shows for the first time that a low dose oral contraceptive with a unique progestin and dosing regimen is effective in ...
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Yale announces $150 million to support leadership in AI

Yale will commit more than $150 million over the next five years to support faculty, students, and staff as they engage with artificial intelligence (AI), the university announced today. “Yale has ...
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At Yale, new neuroscience institute to unravel the mysteries of cognition

The human brain is the source and conduit of all ideas, beliefs, and dreams. It drives us to produce art, literature, and science, to feel and describe love, to invent for survival and diversion alike ...
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Assyria: Chronicling the rise and fall of the world’s first empire

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...
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Study: Drug has long-term survival benefit for some lung cancer patients

According to the results of a large, global study led by Yale Cancer Center researchers, even a tiny amount of a biomarker known as PD-L1 (programmed death-ligand1) can predict a long-term survival ...