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Valentina Greco Receives the 2021 ISSCR Momentum Award
The prize recognizes the exceptional achievements of an investigator whose innovative research has established a major area of stem cell-related research with a strong trajectory for future success.
25 Jan 2021
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Weight Loss Surgery: Clearing up the Confusion
Research suggests that for some with obesity, it is extremely difficult to lose weight without medical support and interventions. But making the decision to have a surgical procedure can be a daunting task. With that in mind, we provide a glossary of terms to help people better understand the landscape of weight loss surgery. Photo by Getty Images
Source: Yale Medicine
22 Jan 2021
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Roberto J. Groszmann, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Dies at 81
He was recognized as a pioneer in the field of portal hypertension, the main complication of liver cirrhosis.
22 Jan 2021
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A Class Act
The Yale Class of 1961 Cancer Center Endowment provides generous support for some of Yale Cancer Center’s most promising scientists. The legacy from the Yale Class is the Yale Class of 1961 Cancer Center Endowment. Established in 2016, the Endowment, which stands at more than $1.5 million and continues to grow, has honored one Yale Cancer Center faculty member each year since its inception with a $50,000 grant to support their highly promising cancer research.
20 Jan 2021
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YSM Students Play Key Roles in the Creation of National Resources for First-generation and Low-income Medical Students
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students have led the effort, on campus and nationally, to advocate for first-generation and low-income (FGLI) students in medicine, creating organizations and developing resources to help students access and navigate medical school. This includes working to end the default perception that FGLI students are high-risk in medical school, and replace it with the recognition that their diverse perspectives significantly enhance medical education and will improve how health care is delivered.
20 Jan 2021
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Understanding Immune System Blunders in Response to the Coronavirus
Genetics, gender, and even botched timing on the part of the immune response all appear important in the development of COVID-19. Akiko Iwasaki, PhD, is leading research to help us better predict who is likely to sail through a bout with COVID-19 and who may need targeted lifesaving care.
20 Jan 2021
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Intimate Partner Violence Survivor Now Dedicated Researcher - Student Spotlight: Laurel Sharpless, MPH ‘21
Former NFL cheerleader and intimate partner violence survivor Laurel Sharpless is working to improve interventions addressing intimate partner violence.
19 Jan 2021
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Radiologists Bring New Molecular Imaging Technology to Yale
The Nuclear Medicine Section is taking part in a new clinical trial to test the effectiveness of a novel molecular imaging agent to improve the diagnosis of brain metastasis recurrence after radiation therapy in cancer patients.
19 Jan 2021
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Overactive Food Quality Control System Triggers Food Allergies
In a paper published Jan. 14 in the journal Cell, four Yale immunobiologists propose an expanded explanation for the rise of food allergies.
Source: YaleNews
14 Jan 2021
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Caleb González, MD, Emeritus Professor, Dies at 91
He was recognized as a pioneer in the field of strabismus, including writing one of the first textbooks on the subject. He was also a prolific researcher, a world-renowned speaker, and a passionate educator.
14 Jan 2021
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Donation Creates Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Fund at the Yale School of Public Health
The Yale School of Public Health’s ongoing efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion received a substantial boost recently with a generous donation from Dr. Pilar Vargas and her husband Dean Sten H. Vermund.
13 Jan 2021
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A Good Time To Quit: Smoking and Vaping Amid COVID-19
Yale Medicine doctors discuss why it's important to be as healthy as possible during the pandemic.
Source: Yale Medicine
12 Jan 2021
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Disagreeing Takes up a Lot of Brain Real Estate
When two people agree, their brains exhibit a calm synchronicity of activity focused on sensory areas of the brain. When they disagree, however, many other regions of the brain involved in higher cognitive functions become mobilized as each individual combats the other’s argument.
Source: YaleNews
12 Jan 2021
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Federman Named Chief of Medicine, Vice Chair for Veterans Affairs
Federman Named Chief of Medicine, Vice Chair for Veterans Affairs
12 Jan 2021
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WHRY Offers Roadmap to Address Sex Differences in Opioid Epidemic
To help halt the ongoing addiction and overdose deaths, Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) is now proposing a data-driven way forward to uncover and more effectively negotiate differences among women and men in opioid use.
12 Jan 2021
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WHRY Funds Study on How CBD Affects the Brain
Women’s Health Research at Yale announced funding to investigate how the presumably non-intoxicating cannabis ingredient cannabidiol (CBD) affects the brain, and if it affects women and men differently. CBD use is growing in popularity exponentially, yet the safety and effectiveness of this non-regulated category of products are unknown.
11 Jan 2021
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Ronald N. Casey, PhD, Dies at 74
The following message was sent to members of the Yale Department of Psychiatry on January 5, 2021. We write with deep sadness to share news of the passing of Ronald Casey, PhD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, after a long illness. Casey died peacefully at his home in Guilford on January 1 with his wife Barbara at his side.
8 Jan 2021
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Yale Researchers Named to List of Inspiring Black Scientists
The list was compiled by The Community of Scholars, a group of Persons Excluded because of their Ethnicity or Race (PEER) composed of postdoctoral fellows, early-stage investigators, instructors, and consultants.
Source: YaleNews
7 Jan 2021
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Parental Birth Abnormalities and Offspring’s Autism Linked
In a study of medical registry records of nearly 400,000 parent-child pairs from Denmark, a Yale School of Public Health study found that parents who themselves born very prematurely are nearly twice as likely to have children with autism spectrum disorder.
7 Jan 2021
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Yale PA Online Program Welcomes 81 New Students
The 81 students who recently matriculated into Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) Physician Assistant Online (PA Online) Program have wide ranging backgrounds that will serve them well in their future careers.
6 Jan 2021