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Yale Superfund Research Center to Investigate Water Contaminants Linked to Cancer
A new Superfund Research Center (SRC) at Yale will conduct extensive analysis of emerging water contaminants that have been linked to liver cancer.
3 Oct 2022
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Emergency Department Crowding Hits Crisis Levels, Risking Patient Safety
In a pair of new studies, Yale researchers document a widespread and increasing level of overcrowding in America’s emergency departments (EDs), a crisis that puts patient safety and access to care at risk.
Source: YaleNews
30 Sep 2022
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Marginalized Students Less Likely to Place in Graduate Medical Education
Researchers sought to predict the likelihood of graduate medical education placement by race and ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic status.
30 Sep 2022
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Microsurgery: What You Need to Know
This intricate procedure is saving lives and improving quality of life for many.
Source: Yale Medicine
29 Sep 2022
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Creating New Neuropsychiatric Drug Candidates From a Virtual Library
Drug candidates identified through this process could lead to treatments for disorders such as depression or anxiety without unwanted side effects brought on by psychedelic therapies.
Source: YaleNews
29 Sep 2022
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Newly Established IMPOWR-YOU Center Engages Diverse Partners to Guide Research Aiming to Advance Treatments for Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder
The Integrative Management of Chronic Pain and Opioid Use Disorder for Whole Recovery-Yale and Organizations United (IMPOWR-YOU) Research Center, launched at Yale School of Medicine nearly one year ago with a transformative $11.8 million grant through the NIH Helping End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative, is seeking to advance integrated treatments for individuals who experience the overlap of chronic pain and opioid use disorder (OUD) or opioid misuse.
28 Sep 2022
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Karam, Nellis Receive R34 Award for Platelet Transfusion Strategies Pilot Study
In a first of its kind pilot study, Oliver Karam, MD, PhD, chief of pediatric critical care at Yale School of Medicine, and Marianne Nellis, MD, MS, associate professor in pediatric critical care at Weill Cornell Medicine, have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study different platelet transfusion thresholds for children supported by ECMO machines (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation).
27 Sep 2022
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Fighting Breast and Ovarian Cancer With a Lupus Antibody
After discovering a specific lupus antibody that can penetrate cancer cells and, with a grant from Women's Health Research at Yale, showing it makes cancer cells vulnerable to standard treatments, Dr. Peter Glazer and his colleagues are moving a treatment to clinical trials.
26 Sep 2022
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Building a Brain Map for Alzheimer’s Disease
With a grant from Women’s Health Research at Yale, Dr. Carolyn Fredericks is employing a cutting-edge neuroimaging technique to study sex differences in Alzheimer's disease.
26 Sep 2022
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Ensuring Bone Health for Adolescents Identifying as Transgender
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.
26 Sep 2022
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Caring for the Children of the Caregivers
Bodel is a nonprofit conceived by women faculty and postdoctoral fellows at Yale School of Medicine to provide on-site care for children of women in medicine. The program began in 1979 with seven families. Now, 120 children from 111 families are enrolled. Bodel’s program cares for children ranging from six weeks of age through pre-kindergarten.
23 Sep 2022
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Study Reveals Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions
A Yale study found persistent racial and ethnic disparities in multimorbidity, which is defined as the presence of two or more concurrent chronic health conditions, in the United States over a 20-year period.
23 Sep 2022
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Olive Oil’s Many Human and Planetary Health Benefits Discussed at 4th Annual International Yale Symposium
Leading experts involved in research and education related to the olive tree and its products gathered in Rome recently to discuss the positive health benefits of olive oil during the Fourth Annual Yale Symposium on Olive Oil & Health.
22 Sep 2022
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Peripheral Artery Disease Is Poorly Understood—And Yale Researchers Are Striving for Answers
September is peripheral artery disease (PAD) awareness month. Although scientists estimate that over 200 million people worldwide suffer from the condition, it’s often neglected in the cardiovascular space in favor of more well-studied diseases, Yale scientists say.
21 Sep 2022
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Research Applies Machine Learning/AI to Predict Consciousness for Driving in People with Epilepsy
A new study published in September 2022 in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology may guide doctors in how to proceed when they observe SWDs on EEG, but are unclear of the patient’s neurological capacity for driving. Led by Principal Investigator Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD, researchers have harnessed the power of machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI) to address the shortcomings of traditional testing.
20 Sep 2022
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A Guide to Arthritis: How to Manage Pain by Body Part
Medical experts discuss approaches to caring for arthritis in the hip, hands, knees, ankles, and feet.
Source: Yale Medicine
20 Sep 2022
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Yale First in State to Offer 'Shape Sensing' Robotic Bronchoscopy
Yale pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons will be the first doctors in Connecticut to perform a next-generation bronchoscopy.
19 Sep 2022
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The Roots of Biodiversity: How Proteins Differ Across Species
The traits of a particular species are not merely the result of its genes but also the proteins for which those genes code. Understanding the differences among species’ proteomes—or all of the proteins that can be expressed—is, therefore, as important as understanding differences among genomes.
Source: YaleNews
19 Sep 2022
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U.S. Surgeon General Speaks on His Personal Journey, Clinician Burnout, and the Future of Medicine
United States Surgeon General and Yale alumnus Vivek Murthy came to the School of Medicine on September 9 to speak about his journey to medicine, health care worker burnout, and his thoughts on the future of the medical field.
16 Sep 2022
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Job Seekers Receive Help from Bell's Virtual Reality Job Interview Training Program
A new paper published in Psychiatric Services and co-authored by Morris Bell, PhD, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in psychiatry, reveals that a virtual reality interview program does provide strong support for people seeking employment.
16 Sep 2022