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Emergency room visits in Connecticut have surged, leading to longer wait times with increased patient volume and prolonged hospital stays for patients awaiting inpatient beds​. What solutions are underway?

Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS, joined News 8 to discuss, is being angry bad for your heart? The recommended age to begin mammograms is now 40 and birthrates are at a history low in the U.S.

ER wait times in the United States have significantly increased over the past few years, with patients waiting longer for treatment due to various factors including staffing shortages and increased demand for services. How do we address these challenges moving forward?

In this episode of WTNH Health Headlines, Dr. Arjun Venkatesh joined News 8 to discuss: nursing homes now have a minimum staffing rule, how your partner’s stroke could impact your mental health and a health advisory by the CDC on contaminated botox.

A recent collaborative study conducted by Yale researchers sought to apply these methods towards developing a framework for measuring equitable readmissions to the hospital, and to identify hospitals that have equitable rates of readmission.

For the third year in a row, the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the Yale School of Medicine ranked first in the nation in research dollars awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2023, as tabulated by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

In today’s health headlines, how using marijuana as little as once a month can affect your health, the breast cancer death rate has dropped by 58% and why next season’s flu shot will include one less strain. The chair of emergency medicine at Yale Medicine and professor at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Arjun Venkatesh, joined News 8 to discuss these topics.

In this segment from WTNH, eye ointment sold at Walmart and CVS are being recalled, what do you need to know about a new drug for children’s food allergies and how often do emergency room trips result in a cancer diagnosis? Doctor Arjun Venkatesh, Chair of Emergency Medicine at Yale Medicine and Professor at Yale School of Medicine joined Ann Nyberg on News 8.

Emergency departments (EDs) are essential but underutilized access points for opioid use disorder diagnosis and treatment. Harnessing electronic health record (EHR) data to drive infrastructure development and service improvement is one promising pathway toward maximizing the potential of EDs to connect individuals with opioid use disorder to care. A new clinical trial funded through the National Institutes of Health Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Data2Action Initiative proposes to do just that.