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Yale faculty, trainees, postdocs, and students will present research at the upcoming American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Chicago later this month.
- October 31, 2024
In the “post-antibiotic era,” Yale researchers and clinicians are doing their part to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
- October 22, 2024
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, racial outcome disparities emerged. In the first year, for example, Black and Hispanic patients were far likelier to die than white patients were. Yet a bright spot occurred at Yale. Not only was the mortality rate throughout Yale New Haven Health in the pandemic’s first two years lower than the national average, but also no race-based survival differences occurred among discharged patients.
- October 16, 2024
The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome the following new staff, faculty, postgraduate fellows, postgraduate associates, and postdoctoral associates who joined the team in September 2024.
- October 07, 2024
Yale School of Medicine experts provide tips for older adults who choose to stay at home rather than move into an assisted living facility or nursing home.
- September 25, 2024
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda have collaborated since 2006 to enhance medical education and research for improved clinical care, under the umbrella of the MUYU collaboration. Over the years, this collaboration has fostered a bidirectional exchange of medical personnel between the two institutions, and has been based in the Office of Global Health in Yale’s Department of Internal Medicine and the MUYU Office at Makerere University College of Health Sciences .
- September 20, 2024
Despite their declining frequency, autopsies can provide clinically relevant information that physicians find helpful in their treatment of the living.
- September 12, 2024
The Department of Internal Medicine is pleased to welcome the following new staff, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and postdoctoral associates who joined the team in August 2024:
- August 21, 2024
Fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis is a chronic and progressive interstitial lung disease, caused by an immune response to inhaled foreign antigens or allergens. Researchers from Yale’s Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine have used single-cell sequencing technology to provide the first high-resolution atlas of this disease, revealing a previously unrecognized immune signature. Their findings were recently published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- August 14, 2024
If you’ve ever stayed overnight in a hospital, you may have had trouble sleeping amidst the beeps, bright lights, and nighttime interruptions. Melissa Knauert, MD, PhD, associate professor in Yale’s Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, understands the challenge. For the past 12 years, she’s been working to make the ICU less disruptive to sleep.