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Exhausted, Frustrated Hospital Workers Suffer More Abuse and Assaults During Pandemic, Officials Say
Hospital officials say verbal abuse and physical attacks on nurses, doctors and other hospital employees are occurring more frequently during the COVID-19 pandemic. John H. Krystal, MD, chair of the Yale Department of Psychiatry and chief of psychiatry at Yale New Haven Hospital, told the New Haven Register, that stress in both patients and hospital workers is a setup for conflict.
- December 22, 2021
LaShae Nicholson, PhD, from the laboratory of Stephen Strittmatter, and Rafael Perez, PhD, from the laboratory of Marina Picciotto, have been selected to receive the Kavli Postdoctoral Award for Academic Diversity.
- December 22, 2021Source: BioWorld
Intracranial aneurysms are surprisingly common in middle age, with an estimated prevalence of 2% in the general population.
- December 13, 2021
Yale researchers, led by Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, have published a paper in Addiction Biology that explores whether synaptic density in the brain is altered in cocaine use disorder.
- December 10, 2021
The HFSP Nakasone Award is designated for scientists whose work has led to significant breakthroughs in the life sciences. It was named after Japan’s former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who believed in the importance of international collaboration for the advancement of science.
- December 09, 2021
Mutations of a gene that regulates formation of blood vessels in the brain of vertebrates can lead to potentially deadly aneurysms in adults, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the December issue of Nature Medicine.
- December 06, 2021
Yale study findings that stress does indeed make life’s clock tick faster — but that individuals can help manage the effects by strengthening their emotion regulation and self-control.
- November 18, 2021Source: NBC Connecticut
The veteran suicide rate is nearly double that of the general population, according to a new study by Yale Psychiatry researchers. The study was featured on NBC Connecticut.
- November 05, 2021Source: Yale Daily News
The FDA Office of Minority Health and Health Equity awarded the Yale School of Medicine a $3 million contract to promote diversity in clinical trials.