Pediatrics News
It is normal for some students to experience back-to-school stress. Many challenges come with the start of a new school year. This article is geared toward the typical stressors of starting or returning to school, and is not intended to focus on students showing severe cases of anxiety or depression.
- July 23, 2019
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- July 23, 2019
Yale New Haven Children's Hospital is getting some four-legged full-time staff members
- July 16, 2019
The Yale Child Study Center, the Department of Pediatrics, and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee team at the Unitarian Society of New Haven co-hosted a rally and candlelight vigil on July 12 to protest the conditions migrants are facing at the U.S. - Mexico border.
- July 16, 2019
Treatments for Parkinson’s disease have most recently focused on increasing dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain that affects reward-based behaviors and motivation, as well as movement. A new study by Yale researchers challenges long-held assumptions about dopamine’s sole role in this disorder.
- July 11, 2019
A candlelight vigil to protest treatment of Mexican and Central American migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, one of a reported 700-plus events around the world, will be held at 8 p.m. Friday on the steps of Hamden Memorial Town Hall.
- July 10, 2019
The Yale Child Study Center and Department of Pediatrics are co-hosting a candlelight vigil on July 12, 2019, when there will be a global series of over 400 such Lights for Liberty vigils to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees at our borders – especially by children. Join your colleagues in the community on July 12 from 8-9:30 p.m. on the steps of the Hamden Town Hall. BYOC = Bring Your Own Candle!
- July 09, 2019
Congratulations to the Department of Pediatrics faculty members, residents, fellows, and our YNHH colleagues who recently received endowed awards. And kudos to the members of this year's Department of Pediatrics Faculty Honor Roll.
- July 05, 2019
Summer is such a great time for kids to enjoy outdoor activities. We can all play an important role in helping to keep them safe.
- July 02, 2019
Yale pediatrician and geneticist Patrick Gallagher, M.D., studies hereditary spherocytosis (HS), an inherited disease associated with hemolytic anemia, when red blood cells are destroyed faster than they are produced due to abnormal membranes. A novel mutation in the gene that encodes alpha-spectrin, a protein essential for normal red blood cell membranes, is responsible for many cases of recessive hereditary spherocytosis (rHS), the most severe form of the disease, reports Gallagher’s team
