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Fifteen School of Medicine Faculty Members Are Among Those Newly Elected to CASE
Fifteen School of Medicine faculty members are among the newest group elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
4 Mar 2021
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Immunotherapy Drug Delays Onset of Type 1 Diabetes in At-risk Group
The drug, developed by biotechnology company Provention, has been awarded breakthrough status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and could be approved for general use by summer.
Source: YaleNews
3 Mar 2021
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Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center Launched at Yale
Yale School of Medicine announces a gift to establish the Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center at Yale Cancer Center. The Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center will be a leading center in Neuro-Oncology research worldwide, bringing ground-breaking solutions and hope to patients with brain tumors.
25 Feb 2021
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Yale Targets COVID-19 with Innovative Computational Design Methods
Yale scientists have developed a new class of antiviral agents that shows promise for creating COVID-19 therapeutics — exhibiting particular effectiveness when used in tandem with the drug remdesivir, another antiviral medication approved for use against the virus.
Source: YaleNews
25 Feb 2021
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Yale Scientists Repair Injured Spinal Cord Using Patients’ Own Stem Cells
For more than half of the patients, substantial improvements in key functions — such as ability to walk, or to use their hands — were observed within weeks of stem cell injection, the researchers report. No substantial side effects were reported.
Source: Yale News
22 Feb 2021
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COVID-19 Variants: What Can We Do To Stay Safe?
Yale experts discuss mutations, masks, humidity, and more.
Source: Yale Medicine
18 Feb 2021
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Should You Double-mask? It Depends
Advice on face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic is changing—here’s some help.
Source: Yale Medicine
17 Feb 2021
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Yale Scientists Receive a Major Award to Investigate Hemorrhagic Stroke
A scientific team at Yale led by Lauren Sansing, MD, MS, and Kevin N. Sheth, MD, is part of a three-institution research network being formed by the American Heart Association to study and treat hemorrhagic stroke.
11 Feb 2021
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What Is It Like To Get a COVID-19 Vaccination?
Five things to know before rolling up your sleeve.
Source: Yale Medicine
10 Feb 2021
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Video—Understanding COVID-19: Vaccine Distribution Challenges
Watch this video to learn more about overcoming distribution challenges and how equity plays a crucial role in determining the success of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Source: YSM/YouTube
5 Feb 2021
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Health Equity: What It Means and Why It Matters
Helping those hit harder by COVID-19
Source: Yale Medicine
2 Feb 2021
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Yale Researchers Develop Injection to Treat Skin Cancer
Yale researchers are developing a skin cancer treatment that involves injecting nanoparticles into the tumor, killing cancer cells with a two-pronged approach, as a potential alternative to surgery.
1 Feb 2021
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Why Get the COVID-19 Vaccination? One Woman’s Story
A 'Cultural Ambassador' reaches out to people who have doubts about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Source: Yale Medicine
29 Jan 2021
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Yale Scientists Map the Shape of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome
Anna Marie Pyle, PhD, and her team have spent 10 months cataloguing and exploring the intricate biological makeup of the viral RNA genome after it infects a human cell. The result is a detailed map of the SARS-CoV-2 genome with an unprecedented level of detail that contains more than 100 identifiable structures within the genomic RNAs of the virus.
Source: YaleNews
28 Jan 2021
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Scientists Unravel Mystery of Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes
"Age and sex are where immunological changes intersect,” says Akiko Iwasaki, PhD. Over the past year, Iwasaki and her colleagues from around the globe have compiled a rich literature of research that reveals in detail these and other factors that make the virus more lethal for men.
Source: YaleNews
25 Jan 2021
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Yale’s New Vaccine Initiative Targeting COVID-19
Amid a global effort to bring vaccines to the public, Yale School of Public Health researchers and their colleagues around the university are hard at work to speed up the process.
25 Jan 2021
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Covid UK Variant: What You Need To Know
Last week, Gov. Lamont announced that the first two COVID-19 cases with the “UK variant” were detected in Connecticut. This virus variant was first detected in England and seems to spread more easily between people. Its detection in our community raises alarms, but there is also a lot of misinformation circulating.
Source: New Haven Independent
12 Jan 2021
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Opinion: Our Moment to Heal Health Care
COVID-19 has changed academic medicine forever; it’s up to us to make it better than before.
Source: AAMC
12 Jan 2021
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Yale Researchers Find First Cases of New UK Coronavirus Variant in Connecticut
The variant cases were rapidly identified through a strong collaborative network at Yale to increase surveillance for the B.1.1.7 variant. The nasal swabs were tested by the Yale Pathology Lab and sequenced by the Yale School of Public Health.
Source: YaleNews
8 Jan 2021
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Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital Is Now Home to Second Neonatal MRI Machine in the Country
The world-class Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital is the new home of a state-of-the-art neonatal Embrace MRI machine – one of only two in the United States.
22 Dec 2020