Media Coverage & News Releases

  • VA Enrolling Female and Male Combat Veterans in Study. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs continues to recruit hundreds of combat veterans to participate in this nationwide study.
  • VA Funds Study of Women Combat Vets. Members of Yale’s Psychiatry Department faculty are leading a new nationwide study to determine whether there are gender differences in how female and male military combat veterans readjust to civilian life.
  • WHRYand Emergency Medicine Tackle a Mystery: Unexplained Chest Pain in Women. The majority of patients admitted to the Yale-New Haven Hospital Chest Pain Center are women. Many are relieved to learn after a stress test or angiogram (an X-ray and dye test of blood flow in the heart) that they are not having a heart attack. But they often go home not knowing what could be wrong. Dr. Basmah Safdar knows that this unexplained chest pain among female patients amounts to a very important medical mystery—because many of these women ultimately develop debilitating heart disease. And Safdar is determined to solve this puzzle.
  • WHRY Study of Women Combat Veterans in New Haven Magazine. The cover story features our program’s collaborative study to determine whether female soldiers have a more difficult time than men readjusting to civilian life after combat.
  • Effects of Combat on Returning Female Veterans Focus of Fippinger Grant. As U.S. military women who have been in combat return from Iraq and Afghanistan in unprecedented numbers, WHRY is embarking on a unique and timely collaborative study to determine whether there are gender differences in readjusting to civilian life. View Press Release.Yale study will be first to look at effects of war on women (New Haven Register).
  • Smoking Cessation Harder For Women Than Men. Women’s Health Research at Yale Director, Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure, was featured in a July 8 Hartford Courant story about why women find it difficult to quit smoking.
  • McConnell Center Partners with Yale on Women's Heart Research. View Press Release (May 7, 2009, Columbus, Ohio). To view article on the new partnership, click here.