Acute kidney injury (AKI), a common complication of cardiac surgery during hospitalization, is linked to increased and prolonged risk of death in heart attack patients who have been discharged from the hospital, according to a study published in Archives of Internal Medicine by Yale School of Medicine researchers. (May 15)

Joel Rosenbaum, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at Yale, has received an honorary degree in molecular biology from the University of Siena, Italy for his basic cell biological studies on flagella assembly in a green alga, which provided new insight into Polycystic Kidney Disease. (May 15)

Cells on their way to forming bone also produce an estrogen-like substance that mimics the naturally occurring female sex hormone estradiol, investigators at the Yale School of Medicine reported Monday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (May 13)