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Yale Partners With Connecticut Department of Education to Launch Instructional COVID-19 Website
A group of volunteers from Yale School of Medicine and educators across the state have come together in a collaboration to create COV-Ed, an online resource tool for educators and students to learn about the challenges of the pandemic.
18 Sep 2020
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Yale Researchers to Lead $52M Investigation Into Cause, Effect of Schizophrenia in Some High-risk Adolescents
Researchers with the Yale Department of Psychiatry will lead an international study to better understand the cause and effect of schizophrenia in some high-risk adolescents and young adults.
16 Sep 2020
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Drugging the Undruggable: Yale Finds Treatment Path for Muscular Dystrophy
Researchers at Yale have identified a possible treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease for which there is currently no cure or treatment, by targeting an enzyme that had been considered “undruggable.”
Source: YaleNews
11 Sep 2020
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Collaboration Between Public Health and Pathology Is Testament to the Power of Teamwork in a Pandemic
The Yale-developed SalivaDirect test for COVID-19 came into reality with a large boost from Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pathology.
11 Sep 2020
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Five Reasons To Get the Flu Shot—Especially This Year
It is a powerful tool against flu and, indirectly, COVID-19.
Source: Yale Medicine
11 Sep 2020
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Yale Researchers Find a Cause and Possible Treatment for Fragile X
Fragile X syndrome is a leading cause of autism and the primary genetic driver of intellectual disability.
Source: YaleNews
8 Sep 2020
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Common Cold Combats Influenza
The findings help answer a mystery surrounding the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic: An expected surge in swine flu cases never materialized in Europe during the fall, a period when the common cold becomes widespread.
Source: YaleNews
4 Sep 2020
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Sex Differences in COVID-19 Immune Responses Affect Patient Outcomes
Investigators funded by Women’s Health Research at Yale have identified significant differences in how the immune systems of women and men respond to the virus that causes COVID-19.
26 Aug 2020
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Daniel DiMaio Receives Prestigious NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
The National Cancer Institute has named Daniel DiMaio, MD, PhD, a recipient of its Outstanding Investigator Award.
21 Aug 2020
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Is Saliva Testing Better? Five Things To Know About the New COVID-19 Test
Yale researchers have developed a saliva-based COVID-19 test method that health officials are calling a “game-changer.”
Source: Yale Medicine
20 Aug 2020
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Quick and Affordable Saliva-based COVID-19 Test Developed by Yale Scientists Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization
A saliva-based laboratory diagnostic test developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health to determine whether someone is infected with the novel coronavirus has been granted an emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Source: YaleNews
15 Aug 2020
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Obesity Emerges as Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 Illness
Yale Medicine physicians explain how obesity may heighten chance of severe disease.
Source: Yale Medicine
11 Aug 2020
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Yale School of Medicine Welcomes First-year MD and MD-PhD Students
The students comprising the incoming Yale School of Medicine (YSM) MD class of 2024 experienced an unconventional recruitment process due to COVID-19, but YSM Director of Admissions Ayaska Fernando says he is thrilled with the exceptional group who have chosen to attend the school.
6 Aug 2020
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YSM Team Proposes a Novel Approach to Addressing Racism in Medical Education
“Most medical schools are white spaces where explicit and implicit racism occurs constantly and often goes unmentioned and unpunished,” according to a recently published article. Authored by Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Psychiatry Resident Nientara Anderson, MHS, MD; Dowin Boatright, MD, MBA, MHS, assistant professor of emergency medicine; and Anna Reisman, MD, professor and director, Program for Humanities in Medicine, Blackface in White Space: Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education, appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
4 Aug 2020
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Opinion: Scared That COVID-19 Immunity Won’t Last? Don’t Be
Dropping antibody counts aren’t a sign that our immune system is failing against the coronavirus, nor an omen that we can’t develop a viable vaccine.
Source: New York Times
31 Jul 2020
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The Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale Awards $2.6 Million For Faculty Research
Awards include specific funding to support COVID-19 clinical trial
Source: Office of Cooperative Research
21 Jul 2020
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In Conversation: Volkmar on Supporting Children with Developmental Disorders During COVID-19
Departure from routine can be especially hard for children with developmental disorders, and the changes to daily life wrought by the pandemic pose an extra challenge for them and for their families.
Source: YaleNews
13 Jul 2020
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Yale Cancer Center Awarded NIH SPORE Renewal for Lung Cancer Research
Yale Cancer Center researchers were awarded a $11 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health to fund the Yale Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Lung Cancer.
8 Jul 2020
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COVID-related Pilot Projects Are Selected for Research Funding
Three pilot projects to investigate aspects of the current pandemic have received funding from Yale’s COVID-19 Research Resource Fund, which was built with generous contributions from Yale’s donors.
1 Jul 2020
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Müschen Named Inaugural Director of Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine
Markus Müschen, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural Director of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital.
30 Jun 2020