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Christina Chia Price’s ancestors and extended family members work in health care. That network has helped her excel in her chosen field—immunology.
Wander the maze of interconnected Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and Yale School of Medicine buildings between Cedar Street and Howard Avenue, and you will eventually come across a pair of facing display cases. They hold one of Yale’s most unusual collections: antique baby bottles.
Linda Genen, CMO for Women's Health with Optum, picked up critical skills at Yale School of Medicine during her fellowship in neonatology.
Gene sequencing and high-performance computing are poised to improve patient care through precision medicine.
Parents can be resistant to hearing that their child faces a challenging health diagnosis. But when Thomas Leaf and Emanuela Palmares learned that their son Caio had autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the diagnosis answered many questions with which they’d been grappling as parents and as..
When a pet prairie dog bit a 3-year-old in Wisconsin in 2003, the child contracted an infection endemic to central and western Africa. How had the monkeypox virus reached the American Midwest?This is the kind of puzzle —and peril—that Warren A.
More than six months after his paper on his new treatment for babies born to mothers addicted to opiates appeared in the journal Pediatrics, Matthew Grossman, M. D.
After the Great Recession, researchers in pediatric health worried that their field might suffer a permanent loss of funding. That concern faded as U.
Six flats, three chains, two tires. Five thousand one hundred miles, two legs, one patriotic and philanthropic Yale physician.
Adele Ricciardi navigates the corridors and stairways of the Hunter Building with practiced ease. The School of Medicine has come to feel like home after six years spent in its labs and classrooms.
With the passing of Carolyn W. Slayman, Ph.
While training as a neonatologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Linda C. Mayes, M.
For 40 years, virtually every hospital in the United States has treated babies born to mothers who are addicted to heroin and other opioids the same way. Newborns are sent straight to intensive care and given morphine, phenobarbital, or other medications to ease their withdrawal symptoms. A children’s ward is the next stop, where doctors and nurses continue administering medication to slowly wean babies from drugs they were exposed to in utero. The painstaking process typically takes three to four weeks, sometimes stretching to more than two months.
For 40 years, virtually every hospital in the United States has treated babies born to mothers who are addicted to opioids and heroin the same way. Newborns are sent straight to intensive care and given morphine, phenobarbital, or other medications to ease their withdrawal symptoms.
One night last December, Scullers Jazz Club in Cambridge, Mass. , was packed with national experts on child abuse, Peace Corps veterans, and book group buddies, all there to honor Eli Newberger, M.
Abuse can change the ways in which genes are expressed, leading to alterations throughout the genome.
When Robert Hamburger, M. D.
Although the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act faces legal and political challenges, it provides, said Howard Koh, M. D.
by Brenda C. McClain, M.
by Geoffrey Miller, M. B.