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For individuals with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), pain can be a pervasive aspect of everyday life, affecting both physical and mental health. An ongoing study in collaboration with the Yale Sickle Cell Program is set to examine the efficacy of mindfulness-based treatments (MBT) to address pain and improve quality of life for SCD patients. Led by Zachary Harvanek, MD, PhD, John Roberts, MD, Ariadna Forray, MD, and Michael Crowley, PhD, “Neural Correlates of Pain, Resiliency, and Mindfulness in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease” will explore neural markers of chronic pain in patients with SCD and assess whether MBT can improve both chronic pain and SCD in this population.

With a grant from Women's Health Research at Yale, Dr. Stuart Weinzimer, in collaboration with Drs. Thomas Carpenter and Christy Olezeski, is using sophisticated methods to obtain a picture of the dynamic process of bone development in adolescents undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy.

On Aug. 12, professors from the Yale Law School, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and University of Texas Southwestern filed a brief as amici curiae in Eknes-Tucker v. Governor, State of Alabama with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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National medical and legal researchers have issued a report condemning Florida health officials’ plan to block Medicaid coverage for gender-dysphoria treatments, saying the move lacks “any persuasive scientific or medical justification.”

As Florida policymakers pursue state-level restrictions on transgender care, legal and medical experts from Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, and University of Alabama at Birmingham have released a new report that identifies and refutes the many unscientific claims behind the effort.

In this commentary piece, Yale faculty and colleagues define gender affirming care and address related scientific misinformation.