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Fifteen students have been taken to Yale New Haven Hospital after a school bus crash in West Haven on Thursday morning. Police said the injuries appear to be minor. The Yale SHARP (Sponsor Hospital Area Response Physician) Team is always activated for situations like this, according to officials.
- March 08, 2024
For the third year in a row, the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the Yale School of Medicine ranked first in the nation in research dollars awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2023, as tabulated by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
- March 07, 2024Source: The New York Times Magazine
Dr. Anthony Tomassoni treats a 70-year-old patient who went from walking 10-15 miles a day to being nearly helpless, in seemingly no time at all. What was the cause of this sudden shift in vigor?
- March 06, 2024Source: WTNH
In today’s health headlines, how using marijuana as little as once a month can affect your health, the breast cancer death rate has dropped by 58% and why next season’s flu shot will include one less strain. The chair of emergency medicine at Yale Medicine and professor at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Arjun Venkatesh, joined News 8 to discuss these topics.
- March 06, 2024Source: YLS Today
Experts at the symposium "Innovating Elder Justice" said it's critical for legal systems to be able to identify. report, and prevent abuse among older adults.
- March 01, 2024Source: SAEM Pulse March-April 2024
An interview with Drs. Ambrose Wong and Rebekah Heckmann on behalf of the SAEM Research Committee focusing on their R01 project, "System Dynamics Modeling to Promote Health Equity in Management of Agitation"
- February 28, 2024Source: WTNH
In this segment from WTNH, eye ointment sold at Walmart and CVS are being recalled, what do you need to know about a new drug for children’s food allergies and how often do emergency room trips result in a cancer diagnosis? Doctor Arjun Venkatesh, Chair of Emergency Medicine at Yale Medicine and Professor at Yale School of Medicine joined Ann Nyberg on News 8.
- February 21, 2024Source: YaleNews
Black patients are more likely than white patients to be restrained in emergency departments. Police transport may play a role.
- February 16, 2024Source: WBUR
Camenga and Hadland say medical schools and pediatric residency programs are adding information to their curricula about substance use disorders, including how to discuss drug and alcohol use with children and teens.
- February 12, 2024
Last week, the Yale medical community gathered to hear the reading of ten Yale residents’ written works. The reading event celebrated the 20th anniversary of Yale’s Internal Medicine Residency Writers’ Workshop, which began in 2003. As in past years, residents who partook in this year’s reading spent two days this fall working closely with workshop leaders Anna Reisman, MD; Lisa Sanders, MD; and Sharon Ostfeld-Johns, MD; to revise their pieces. The authors continue to work on their stories through the fall with ongoing mentorship from workshop leaders. Last Thursday, February 1, they read their final works aloud to Yale faculty, staff, and students.