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Minimizing pain, accelerating healing
Minimally invasive surgical techniques are on the rise at Yale
After a recent successful intervention at Yale-New Haven Hospital to restore blood flow through a failing hemodialysis graft, a patient shook the hand of Assistant Professor of Surgery and Diagnostic Radiology James Wong, M.D., and declared, “Dr. Wong, you are the...
Meeting the demand for blood supply: Yale makes strides in vessel engineering
Although blood vessels may seem like mere plumbing compared to organs like the brain or eye, they are complex and dynamic components of the body, and building vessels from scratch has been a challenge for scientists in...
Diving deep into a data wave to help make surgery safer
When patients undergo surgery, it’s inevitable that they will lose some blood, so surgical teams strive to replenish patients’ fluids over the course of an operation. But the most common technique to track blood...
An eye for science
Because we learn so much about our world through vision, images have become a crucial part of modern science. Pictures lend an immediacy and a deeper understanding of complex phenomena, from cells to stars, that cannot...
With surgical simulation, practice makes perfect
On a recent day in the School of Medicine’s new Surgical Skills and Simulation Center on Cedar Street, a colonoscopy patient groaned in discomfort as residents discussed increasing his sedation. But Assistant Professor...
Disability is no dead-end for elders, Yale research finds
Between the daunting complexities of Medicare’s new prescription drug plans, the uncertainties surrounding the solvency of Social Security and the rising rates of Alzheimer’s disease and other ailments of the elderly,...
Yale scientist named “million-dollar professor” for teaching plan
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Scott Strobel, Ph.D., newly appointed chair and professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, an HHMI Professor. Strobel, one of 20 new HHMI Professors...
Pediatric neurologist is new associate dean for YSM admissions
Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology Laura R. Ment, M.D., has been named associate dean for admissions and chair of the admissions committee at the School of Medicine, effective July 1. Ment succeeds Professor of Cell...
Advances
Why 2 percent is a world of difference
Genomically speaking, we are 98 percent chimp, and for decades, biologists have puzzled over how...
Read more...This is your brain on an empty stomach
Cutting calories can definitely make you trimmer, and may help you live longer. Now a new Yale...
Read more...Cells fall on sword to stop Legionnaire's
Like a deadly stowaway, Legionella pneumophila, the bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease,...
Read more...Maki de Sade: wasabi really hurts!
For pain researchers, the recent discovery of a neuronal receptor that relays the zip of wasabi...
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