Search Results < Yale School of Medicine

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Lemmon Will Be the Next Chair of Pharmacology
Mark A. Lemmon, PhD, will become chair of the Department of Pharmacology in July 2023.
22 Nov 2022
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Following Yale Investigator-led Trials, FDA Approves First Drug To Delay Onset of Type 1 Diabetes
Teplizumab can change the course of type 1 diabetes, one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood, and the lives of those who might develop the disease.
18 Nov 2022
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Why Eye Contact Is Rare Among People With Autism
Using an innovative technology that enables imaging of two individuals during live and natural conditions, Yale researchers have identified specific brain areas in the dorsal parietal region of the brain associated with the social symptomatology of autism.
Source: YaleNews
9 Nov 2022
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Will Long COVID Research Provide Answers for Poorly Understood Diseases Like ME/CFS?
ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) is a highly disabling, severe condition that has been largely overlooked and even questioned as an illness by physicians and biomedical researchers for decades. But now, scientists including Yale's Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz are finding parallels between post-infection long COVID and ME/CFS.
1 Nov 2022
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Researchers Probe Why Vaccine Responses Differ From Person to Person
A team of researchers led by Yale School of Medicine’s Steven Kleinstein, PhD, is striving to understand why some people’s immune systems generate a robust protective response post-vaccination while others’ fail, and how this differs across vaccines. The team has published a series of new papers on its investigations.
31 Oct 2022
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New Mouse Model Provides Unprecedented Look at Human Immune System
Despite the critical role of neutrophils in the human immune system, no one has been able to study them in a living context, limiting investigations of their properties. But now, a team of Yale researchers has developed the first humanized mouse model that will permit research on neutrophils in vivo.
21 Oct 2022
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Frailty, Dementia Raise Mortality Risk for Older Americans After Surgery
The findings have major implications for the way U.S. health care providers and policymakers think about major surgery in certain subgroups of older persons and how providers manage pre-operative and post-operative care for people who are age 65 and older.
Source: YaleNews
19 Oct 2022
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Avoiding Hip Replacement: How Stem Cells Can Treat Avascular Necrosis
Stem cells are an important tool for a Yale Medicine surgeon as he works to prevent the need for hip replacement surgery.
Source: Yale Medicine
18 Oct 2022
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Glazer and Omer Are New Members of National Academy of Medicine
Two Yale faculty members, Peter M. Glazer, MD, PhD; and Saad B. Omer, MBBS, MPH, PHD; have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine, the academy announced today. Founded in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is one of three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) in the United States.
17 Oct 2022
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Emily Wang, MD, and Two Yale Alumni Win MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards
The fellowship, which was created in 1981, is presented to individuals in a variety of fields who have shown exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits. Nominations are submitted anonymously by leaders in their respective fields. Recipients receive a $625,000 stipend paid in installments over five years to continue their creative pursuits. Wang is the 20th recipient who was actively serving as a Yale faculty or staff member at the time of their award.
Source: YaleNews
12 Oct 2022
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Three Early-career Scientists Recognized as ‘Innovators’
The New Innovator Award is part of the NIH Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, supported by the Common Fund. Awards are for researchers who are within 10 years of their final degree or clinical residency and have not yet received an NIH R01 or equivalent grant.
Source: YaleNews
7 Oct 2022
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Avoiding Hip Replacement: How Stem Cells Can Treat Avascular Necrosis
A Yale Medicine orthopaedic surgeon has developed an innovative procedure that uses a patient’s own stem cells to treat a condition that can cause painful hip fractures.
Source: Yale Medicine
5 Oct 2022
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Novel Gene Editing Platform to Correct Multi-organ Cystic Fibrosis
An interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers has developed a novel gene editing platform that has the potential to correct cystic fibrosis, a potentially debilitating and deadly disease.
5 Oct 2022
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New Instructional Video on Optimal Femoral Access Corrects Anatomical Error
Vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists and radiologists, and neurosurgeons perform procedures that involve femoral artery access, but techniques vary across the various specialties. Now, a group at Yale School of Medicine has created an instructional video that optimizes femoral punctures and decreases the risk of complication and bleeding. The team hopes that its work could standardize the technique for accessing the femoral artery and will lead to better patient outcomes.
30 Sep 2022
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Keith Choate, MD ’04, PhD ’01, Appointed Chair/Chief of Dermatology
Keith Choate, MD, PhD, will become chair of the Department of Dermatology and chief of Dermatology of Yale New Haven Hospital effective October 1, 2022. Choate will also work collaboratively with delivery network leadership to advance dermatological services across Yale New Haven Health System.
23 Sep 2022
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Promising Trial for a Drug to Ease Uterine Fibroids
Yale School of Medicine's Ob/Gyn Chair Hugh Taylor, MD, was a leader of a clinical trial for a drug that could sharply advance uterine fibroid treatment.
22 Sep 2022
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Yale Neurosurgeons Implant First Endovascular Device for Hydrocephalus in North America
A leading expert in neuroendovascular surgery, Charles Matouk, MD, and his team at Yale School of Medicine are now paving the way for better treatments for adult-onset hydrocephalus by being the first in the country to implant the eShunt, an investigational device that can be placed using minimally invasive techniques.
6 Sep 2022
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Yale Creates Center Devoted to Brain and Mind Health
The center will foster transformational work that bridges existing departments, levels of analysis, and disciplinary boundaries, and will focus on areas of clinical and translational neuroscience that are broader than any single disease.
30 Aug 2022
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Is Polio Making a Comeback?
Howard Forman explains the latest polio outbreak and its implications for public health in the United States.
26 Aug 2022
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How Studying Cellular Senescence Can Help Researchers Learn to Delay Aging
Chronic inflammation, one of the major hallmarks of aging, is thought to be partly caused by senescent cells that may accumulate in older individuals. Now, Yale researchers have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund’s Cellular Senescence Network Program (SenNet) to study these specialized cells.
19 Aug 2022