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  • Health Equity Summit Celebrates Achievements, Plans Future Solutions

    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.

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  • How to Age in Place

    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.

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  • Pulmonary Learning Spans from Uganda to U.S.

    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 .

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  • Unique Immune Profile Identified in Fibrotic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis

    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.

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  • Sleep Deprivation in the ICU

    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.

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