Jennifer Kaylin
Articles
Winter 2013
Yale scientists and a patient’s family join forces to find a cure
Chloe Kiev, an otherwise perfect baby, was born with a troubling trait—a very loud heart murmur. It was so loud, in...
Winter 2013
Lives of people of color neglected in the media
Veteran journalist and civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, winner of two Peabodys and two Emmys and author of...
Winter 2012
Students begin new semester with iPads
A move to make the School of Medicine a greener campus has demonstrated the potential of new technology to change the...
Winter 2012
Support federal research funding
Bracketing her remarks with anecdotes drawn from personal experience, U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro gave an...
Spring 2012
An alumnus’ journey: doctor, inventor, and a founder of the UCSD medical school
When Robert Hamburger, M.D. ’51, HS ’54, was a newly minted University of North Carolina graduate, he planned to become...
Spring 2012
New center to support novel teaching methods
A new center opened in February in a handful of rooms on the second floor of Harkness Building A. The Teaching and...
Spring 2012
Scholars work toward healthy communities
When Oni Blackstock, M.D., arrived in New Haven in the summer of 2010 to begin her fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson...
Autumn 2011
School of Medicine welcomes Class of 2015
The 101 members of the Yale School of Medicine’s Class of 2015 looked elated but also a little incredulous as they...
Autumn 2011
Alumnus brings social perspective to post
When Nirav R. Shah, M.D. ’98, M.P.H. ’98, HS ’01, was a medical student, he found a research paper that proved to be...
Winter 2009
Reform of premed education under way
In 1910, Abraham Flexner’s examination of the state of American medical education led to widespread reforms ...
Winter 2009
Dean of Yale College becomes third scientist named as provost
Last fall, during his final freshman address as dean of Yale College, Peter Salovey, exhorted ...
Winter 2009
New approach to thyroid surgery
Over the last two years the Yale Pediatric Thyroid Center has treated 30 patients by using a new approach—the pairing...
Spring 2009
Carrying on a tradition
Following months of research and analysis, students present their theses at Student Research Day.
Spring 2009
From a donor in the anatomy lab, a final lesson
Four first-year medical students in the anatomy lab watched closely in February as Shukrulla Ghofrany, M.D., lecturer...
Spring 2009
A revitalized trauma section increases staff and improves care in emergency cases
On February 16, 2007, Quinnipiac University senior Benjamin Shapiro was driving down a secondary road in Hamden, Conn.,...
Autumn 2009
A touch of glass
At this most modern of universities, with its particle accelerators, radiochemistry facility, and stem cell center, a...
Autumn 2009
Yale’s Physician Associate Program nears 40
As it approaches its 40th year, the PA Program fills a niche in American medicine.
Autumn 2009
Sight restored with artificial cornea
Sixteen years ago, when Awilda Irizarry was 33, glaucoma was diagnosed in her right eye. Over the years, her vision...
Winter 2008
Surgeon, rodeo doctor and, now, senator
John A. Barrasso, M.D., HS ’83, the new Republican U.S. senator from Wyoming, recalls that when he was a resident at...
Winter 2008
Eyeing “broader impacts,” Yale bolsters efforts to bring science to local schools
High school students in New Haven and neighboring communities are reaping benefits from a federal effort to encourage...
Winter 2008
TB, an Atlanta lawyer and 52 South African patients
At first glance a diagnosis of tuberculosis seems to be all that unites Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer, with 52...
Winter 2008
Speeding the pace of biomarker discovery
Biomarkers that identify cancer in its early and more treatable stages have emerged as the newest tools in its...
Winter 2008
Yale system remains a strong draw
Kwame and Kofi Atsina went to different colleges and have different interests, but when it came time to apply to...
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Spring 2008
Striking a chord
In mid-December about 90 musicians—students and faculty in medicine and public health—took the stage in Harkness...
Spring 2008
After hard times, a student-run journal rides high again as an online publication
When Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., dean of the medical school from 1920 to 1935, conceived of the Yale system of medical...
Spring 2008
Actress-writer returns to New Haven with a drama about the resilience of the human body
About eight years ago, Asghar Rastegar, M.D., deputy chair of internal medicine and professor of internal medicine...
Spring 2008
A new Yale initiative promotes health issues as a tool of diplomacy
In the summer of 2006, Youssra Marjoua experienced, as she puts it, an “aha” moment. Marjoua, a third-year medical...
Spring 2008
An eye for detail and a steady hand
Harvey Cushing, M.D., left his name as well as his mark on American medicine—Cushing’s disease, Cushing’s sign,...
Autumn 2008
Students present their findings at 22nd Student Research Day
At this year’s Student Research Day, the 22nd Annual Scientific Poster Session featuring research by students in...
Winter 2007
Yale’s Army Medical Laboratory and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The two facilities established at Yale during World War I for training lab technicians for fieldwork and for studying...
Winter 2007
Baboons, humans and stress: the cost of being an SOB
Baboons in Africa’s Serengeti Plain spend just three hours a day finding food, said Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D. “That leaves...
Spring 2007
Simulated Cases, Real Skills
Increasingly, medical schools such as Yale are using standardized patients, lifelike mannequins and virtual reality to...
Spring 2007
Environment and society: which determines health risks?
A two-story house has peeling paint and no yard. Behind it loom industrial smokestacks. Mark R. Cullen, M.D. ’76, HS...
Spring 2007
Medicare coverage leads to more screening
The expansion of Medicare in 1998 to cover colonoscopies appears to have led to both an increase in demand for the...
Autumn 2007
A surprise for medical school’s first grandmother
Karen Morris-Priester, M.D. ’07, who received her medical degree on May 28, hopes she’ll be remembered for more than...
Autumn 2007
Bringing management strategies to Ethiopia’s hospital system
In December 1995, Elizabeth H. Bradley, M.B.A., Ph.D. ’96, professor of public health, received a call
Autumn 2007
Advocating protection against cervical cancer
“This is my favorite topic,” said Laura Koutsky, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington...
Autumn 2007
Bringing values, relationships back into medicine
Sarah L. Berga, M.D., administered a dose of idealism to residents in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and...
Autumn 2007
Yale joins national effort to reconsider the benefits of hormone therapy
In 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a research program begun in 1991 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood...
Autumn 2007
A busy but balanced life
When Hylton Mayer, M.D., HS ’06, FW ’07, was a student at the Medical College of Ohio, he participated in medical...
Autumn 2007
As budding researchers, students reveal a talent for ‘mind-boggling’ science
From a study of a transgenic mouse with Alzheimer’s disease to an analysis of the effects of clinic attendance on...
Spring 2006
A new center to fight obesity
A decade ago, when Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., first started attracting national attention, his critics called him a...
Spring 2006
The virus behind the cancer
Over the last half-century research has produced strong evidence of viral links to some cancers. Now vaccines may...
Autumn 2006
The Chase years
Six years ago, Herb Chase came to Yale to improve medical education. As his tenure ended this summer, he left behind a...
Autumn 2006
Preserving fertility
Where once physicians' only concern was saving lives, new techniques under study at Yale can also preserve fertility in...
Autumn 2006
New methods to preserve fertility
Besides oocyte cryopreservation, researchers are exploring other methods to preserve female fertility. For women with...
Summer 2005
Promoting health, from the ground up
Part of a national effort to create community health partnerships, a Yale center is working with New Haven churches to...
Summer 2005
From medicine to media, a doctor extends his reach
After becoming an expert in nutrition, obesity and chronic-disease prevention, David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H. ’93, wasn’t...
Spring 2005
Yale and New Haven join in pilot program for treating HIV/AIDS in Russia
Russia today is where the United States was 20 years ago in dealing with HIV/ AIDS: denial and prejudice are almost as...
Spring 2005
Lessons from the depths
Accounts of death row inmates released from prison based on DNA evidence have become as routine as news stories about...
Autumn 2005
From the Middle East, in the Middle Ages
When we check into a hospital, take our children to the pediatrician or undergo a surgical procedure, it’s likely we’re...
Winter 2004
For NASA veteran, alumni post offers chance to help students reach their goals
When Howard A. Minners, M.D. ’57, M.P.H., was a boy growing up in Garden City, N.Y., his parents hoped he’d aspire to...
Winter 2004
An insider’s view
It’s nearly 1 a.m. on Sunday morning of the July 4 weekend, and the constellation of examination cubicles and work...
Winter 2004
Stressing the human touch in health care
When Anna Quindlen told a friend with AIDS she was giving a talk at the Yale School of Nursing, the friend said, “Tell...
Summer 2004
Challenging Freud, starting a revolution
A residency requirement became a passion for one doctor and changed the field of psychiatry.As a neurology resident at...
Summer 2004
“Population doctor” applying tools of genomics in quest for prevention strategies
Seven years after his graduation, Gualberto Ruaño, Ph.D. ’92, M.D. ’97, isn’t content to treat one patient at a time....
Summer 2004
Increased risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma linked to hair dye
WARNING: The prolonged use of hair dye, especially permanent black, brown and red, may be hazardous to your health....
Spring 2004
Roaming the world’s hot spots, ensuring that care reaches those who need it
Almost two decades after completing his residency in internal medicine at Yale, Michael V. Viola, M.D., HS ’66, was...
Spring 2004
Biomedical engineering becomes a department, uniting several disciplines
In eight years, biomedical engineering at Yale has grown from a fledgling undergraduate major to the university’s...
Spring 2004
Examining how a chemical enters the food supply
Health and safety experts are trying to solve a fast-food mystery: why does a probable human carcinogen appear in such...
Spring 2004
At Liver Center, a vital organ gets its due
Poets and philosophers may rhapsodize about the human heart, but James L. Boyer, M.D., HS ’67, says it’s actually the...
Spring 2004
A bed at Ma Levin’s, dinner at Nick’s and nary an e-mail in sight.
It’s been more than half a century since Arthur C. Crovatto, M.D. ’54, HS ’61, was a first-year Yale medical student...
Winter 2003
Yale scientists among most cited
Yale University ranks fifth among federally funded U.S. universities for the citation impact of its published research,...
Winter 2003
A closer look at clot-busters
Clot-busting drugs are almost always administered to stroke patients incorrectly, sometimes with serious consequences,...
Winter 2003
Cats and the pregnant woman
There’s good news and bad news for pregnant women who live with cats. On the up side, they face little risk of...
Summer 2003
Two yale experts on bioethics panel
As medical and ethical concerns move from the laboratory to the front page, the Bush Administration has named 11...
Summer 2003
A new site for sore eyes
When Candace Ford went for her exam at the new eye clinic in the Hill Health Center, doctors said they couldn’t test...
Summer 2003
A winning spirit
When 12-year-old Millie Suggs rode her wheelchair in a Family Fun race at Disney World in January, two second-year...
Summer 2003
“Hidden” fat poses serious health risk
Postmenopausal women who exercise regularly won’t necessarily see dramatic changes on their bathroom scales or in their...
Summer 2003
The crescendo of four years
In a scene that combined the envelope-opening excitement of the Academy Awards with the destination-determining drama...
Spring 2003
Tobacco funds up in smoke
The $246 billion tobacco settlement was supposed to help fund anti-smoking programs, but most states are using little...
Spring 2003
Nothing trivial about house staff reunion
What is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box? How many movies did Tracy and Hepburn make together? Who was the...
Spring 2003
Volunteers dish out a taste of hunger
An invitation to a banquet usually conjures up images of heaps of sumptuous food, a decadent dessert and a cup of...
Autumn 2003
University, unions settle strike
As Yale Medicine went to press, the university and two major unions representing close to 4,000 workers had reached a...
Autumn 2003
A security review drags on, devastating a scientist and derailing cutting-edge work
As a scientist, Heng Zhu, Ph.D., is used to dead ends, setbacks and roadblocks. But nothing prepared him for the...
Autumn 2003
Neuropeptide’s presence in high levels suggests soldiers are born, not made
Contrary to the image of hardened drill sergeants molding untrained youths into skilled fighting machines, a Yale...
Autumn 2003
When a global outbreak becomes local
For the shoe-leather work of public health, Connecticut officials seek help from Yale's disease detectives.
Autumn 2003
New center opens with goal of streamlining treatment for women with breast cancer
Breast cancer is one of those frightening diseases that inspires races, ribbons and celebrity support for those...
Autumn 2003
A global prescription for a global outbreak
If the SARS outbreak has taught us anything, it is how interconnected the world is and how vital is the need for global...
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