Yale and Career High already have an extensive partnership for teaching area students about biomedical science. A Yale-directed team, including Barry Piekos, supervisor of the electron microscope laboratory in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, maintains the instrument and trains teachers and students in its use. The conventional surgical procedure for alleviating the severe pain and disability associated with carpal tunnel syndrome requires an incision into the sensitive palm. Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery J. Grant Thomson, M.D., is one of the few surgeons using and training surgical residents in an alternative procedure that does not require surgery on the palm. This system utilizes one incision at the wrist into which an endoscope is introduced to release the carpal tunnel.
People can use their hands almost immediately, and they return to work much quicker.
In the largest controlled study to date, Yale researchers found no link between the toxins and breast cancer. Blood serum levels of PCBs and the organochloride compound DDE in nearly 1,000 Connecticut women were analyzed for association with breast cancer risk. No significant difference in serum levels was found between the women with breast cancer and a control group without the disease. A postdoctoral fellow in ophthalmology, Marcio Marc Abreu, M.D., has designed a new device that allows patients to test themselves at home for glaucoma, an eye disorder which can lead to blindness. Currently, detection of glaucoma requires a visit to the eye doctor.