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Web-based Tool Calculates Lives Saved, Policy Implications of Tobacco Control
New estimates from a web-based tool that tracks tobacco use created by the Yale School of Public Health show that the recent federal law raising the age of legal tobacco purchase to 21 could save over 100,000 lives over the rest of this century.
10 Aug 2020
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Yale Launches New Combined Nephrology / Hospice & Palliative Medicine (HPM) Fellowship
Yale Launches New Combined Nephrology / Hospice & Palliative Medicine (HPM) Fellowship
10 Aug 2020
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Is Showering Overrated?
YSPH lecturer Dr. James Hamblin explores the science behind our skin microbiome and what it means to be clean in a new book.
7 Aug 2020
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Anatomy of an Acne Treatment
Researchers found that unlike other tetracycline drugs, sarecycline binds to messenger RNA (mRNA) — molecules within a cell that provide a code for making proteins — in bacterial ribosomes. Ribosomes, found in all living cells, link amino acids together.
Source: YaleNews
6 Aug 2020
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Strong Link Found Between Abnormal Liver Tests and Poor COVID-19 Outcomes
Researchers at the Yale Liver Center found that patients with COVID-19 presented with abnormal liver tests at much higher rates than suggested by earlier studies. They also discovered that higher levels of liver enzymes — proteins released when the liver is damaged — were associated with poorer outcomes for these patients, including ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, and death.
Source: YaleNews
6 Aug 2020
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Anti-Blackness, Abolition, and Criminal Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Emily Wang and Professor Tracey Meares
As many individuals across the United States and in New Haven are engaged in conversations and activism around systemic racism, sparked in part by the disparate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color and recent horrific incidents of police brutality against black men and women, around 170 members of the Yale community and others convened on Zoom on July 22 for a conversation entitled “Anti-Blackness, Abolition, and Criminal Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Emily Wang and Professor Tracey Meares."
6 Aug 2020
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Crusto Appointed Deputy Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Cindy A. Crusto, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been named Deputy Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Yale Department of Psychiatry.
6 Aug 2020
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Survey Concludes Physician-scientists Need More Support
Jennifer Kwan, MD, PhD, has conducted a survey on the pandemic’s impact on physician-scientists.
6 Aug 2020
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Taking Your 'Mental Health' Temperature During COVID-19
Strong emotions during the pandemic are normal, but some may find that their reactions grow worse over time. Yale doctors offer strategies for coping.
Source: Yale Medicine
5 Aug 2020
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Urgent Care Centers Offering ‘Membership Programs’ May Be More Expensive
A new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Yale researchers finds that urgent care centers nationwide have begun offering membership programs as an alternative to insurance, but those programs may not save patients any money.
5 Aug 2020
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Statement from Yale Faculty on Hydroxychloroquine and Its Use in COVID-19
A statement by members of the Yale health faculty on the current controversy involving hydroxychloroquine.
Source: Medium
4 Aug 2020
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Scientists Uncover Biological Signatures of the Worst Covid-19 Cases
Studies of patients with severe cases of Covid-19 show the immune system lacks its usual coordinated response.
Source: New York Times
4 Aug 2020
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Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Public Health Receive Grant to Fund Innovative Research Training Program
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a National Research Service Award Training Grant to fund an innovative, multidisciplinary, and translational training program at Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Public Health.
4 Aug 2020
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Emergency department visits plunged as COVID-19 cases climbed, Yale study finds
A new study from researchers at Yale and the Mayo Clinic found that emergency department (ED) visits dropped significantly in March as the public responded to messages about staying home as a result of the pandemic.
Source: YaleNews
3 Aug 2020
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Findings Point to Importance of Addressing Sleep Disturbance in Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder and Chronic Pain
Yale researchers, including senior author Declan Barry, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, co-authored an article published in Clinical Journal of Pain that found sleep disturbance may be an important treatment target for opioid use disorder and chronic pain among patients receiving methadone maintenance treatment.
3 Aug 2020
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Students need to be tested every 2-3 days for colleges to safely reopen
To safely reopen college campuses this fall, students need to be screened for SARS-CoV-2 infection every two or three days, finds a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health.
Source: Yale News
31 Jul 2020
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Is 98.6 Degrees Really a 'Normal' Temperature?
If you are expecting your body to read an exact 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, think again. It turns out that number, which is considered to be the “normal” body temperature, may actually be a little too high.
Source: Yale Medicine
30 Jul 2020
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$15M NIDA Grant Awarded to Serena Spudich, Mark Gerstein, and Yuval Kluger
Principal Investigators Serena Spudich, MD, MA (Neurology), Mark Gerstein, PhD (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry), and Yuval Kluger, PhD (Pathology) were recently awarded a $15 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to establish a Data Center to coordinate, analyze, and make accessible single-cell and other molecular data sets generated by Single-Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV (SCORCH) and other NIDA-funded HIV and substance use disorder projects.
30 Jul 2020
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For Yale’s Emerging Psychiatrists, Confronting Racism Is in the Curriculum
“The social justice curriculum is an important part of our broader effort to improve the culture of our department with respect to diversity and inclusion, and to bring the many legacies of racism to an end as rapidly as we can,” said department chair Dr. John Krystal.
Source: YaleNews
30 Jul 2020
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Major Depressive Episodes Far More Common than Previously Believed, New Study Finds
The number of adults in the United States who suffer from major depressive episodes at some point in their life is far higher than previously believed, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health finds. National survey data currently shows that approximately 17% of women and 10% of men report having a history of major depressive episodes (MDEs) in their lifetimes. But these data are subject to “recall error,” or the tendency of people to forget or misreport their health histories when taking a survey.
29 Jul 2020