Giving back
Top-notch surgery at Yale inspires a major gift to the School of Medicine
Karen Pritzker and Michael Vlock of Branford, Conn., say the primary motivation behind their recent $3 million gift to endow a School of Medicine professorship in pediatric surgery is gratitude. Two of their children have been treated over the years by surgeons at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH), and in each instance, Pritzker and Vlock say, they received excellent medical advice and first-rate care.The new professorship is named in honor of Karen Pritzker’s father, Robert A....
$23 million grant enables fresh look at stress and addiction
People are much more likely to stick their hand in a cookie jar, smoke a cigarette, or gulp cocktails when they’re...
Lightening the load for the physicians of the future
“I don’t believe in giving for concrete,” declares Sanfurd G. Bluestein, M.D., in as pithy a summation of his pragmatic...
A joint effort to tackle obesity and diabetes
Campus-wide projects address cultural, biological roots of public-health crisis
Growing spare parts for sick children’s hearts
Creating a living, growing organ from scratch sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But a pair of Yale...
Transatlantic team probes kidney’s role in hypertension
Two School of Medicine scientists will join leading researchers in Switzerland, France and Mexico in a transatlantic...
Expert on image analysis finds guideposts for doctors in the ever-changing body
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