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Connecticut allergy community looks forward to newly FDA approved nasal spray
People with serious allergies now have an easier way to be helped if they begin to experience anaphylaxis. The FDA just approved “Neffy.” It's a nasal spray that has the same medication as an Epi-Pen or an Auvi-Q, but there are no needles.
Source: NBC Connecticut
12 Aug 2024
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Are You Getting Enough Vitamin B12? What You Need to Know
Most people get enough B12 from food, but your age, certain conditions, and medications may put you at risk for a deficiency.
Source: Yale Medicine
8 Jul 2024
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The holistic healing program at Smilow Cancer Hospital
The Integrative Medicine Program at Smilow Cancer Hospital helps patients realize they are more than their illness.
Source: NBC CT
19 Jun 2024
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2023-24 Department of Pediatrics Faculty Awards
We are proud to announce the following members of the Department of Pediatrics who have received awards for their distinguished service during the 2023-2024 academic year. Please join us in congratulating them!
10 Jun 2024
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Yale Pediatrics Announces New Section of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology and Interim Section Chief, Ian Ferguson, MD
The Department of Pediatrics and Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital is pleased to announce the establishment of the Section of Pediatric Immunology and Rheumatology. The new section will offer specialized care for our patients facing conditions due to immune dysregulation, including a broad spectrum of rheumatologic, autoinflammatory, autoimmune disease and will eventually include those with primary immunodeficiencies. The new section will be led by Interim Section Chief Ian Ferguson, MD.
7 Jun 2024
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What Happens to Your Brain When You Meditate Every Day?
Based on the amount of scientific evidence supporting meditation, every doctor would be prescribing it if it were a pill, says Gary Soffer, MD, an integrative medicine specialist at Yale Medicine. Let’s dive in and take a look at what meditating regularly does to your brain.
Source: Verywell
3 Jun 2024
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56 Yale Pediatricians Recognized by Connecticut Magazine's 2024 “Top Doctors” List
More than 300 Yale Medicine physicians have earned a spot on the 2024 Connecticut Magazine “Top Doctors” list.
2 May 2024
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Qigong 101: A Beginner’s Guide to the Art of Cultivating Vital Energy
Qigong essentially consists of slow movements, postures, and stretches that coordinate the breath, mind, and body, says Gary Soffer, MD, director of the integrative medicine program at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
Source: Verywell Mind
13 Mar 2024
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Find Yale Pediatrics at the 2024 Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting
Check out where our faculty will be presenting at the 2024 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
28 Feb 2024
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Dr. Gary Soffer on Yale Cancer Answers
Dr. Gary Soffer on Yale Cancer Answers
11 Dec 2023
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2022-23 Department of Pediatrics Faculty Awards
Several members of our faculty in the department of Pediatrics received awards for their distinguished service in teaching for the 2022-2023 academic year.
26 Jul 2023
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How To Prevent Food Allergies in Kids
Yale Pediatric allergy specialists describe a consult program for families with young children.
Source: YaleMedicine.org
17 Jul 2023
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42 Yale Pediatricians Recognized by Connecticut Magazine's 2023 “Top Doctors” List
Connecticut Magazine’s 2023 'Top Doctors' list includes more than 250 Yale Medicine physicians who were selected by their peers as the best in their fields. Forty-two of them are from Yale Pediatrics!
4 May 2023
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See Yale Pediatrics at PAS 2023
Check out where our faculty will be presenting at the 2023 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Washington, D.C.
6 Apr 2023
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Yale doctor explains health benefits of house plants
It seems too good to be true, but science and research say once again says that having house plants has positive effects on health.
Source: WTNH
24 Mar 2023
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How Gardening Can Slash Your Cancer Risk, According to a New Study
Gardeners are in for some good news: Your hobby has significant health benefits.
Source: Best Life
17 Feb 2023
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How to Meditate
A simple meditation practice could make you healthier.
Source: Yale Medicine
28 Nov 2022
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Yale Doctor Encourages Exposure to Nature for Mental Wellbeing and Healing
Nature is not only beautiful, but it can actually have a healing effect, according to Yale Cancer Center’s Dr. Gary Soffer. “Keep using what kept people well for thousands of years,” he said. “Being outside, being connected to nature, these are really powerful things that allow us to improve ourselves.” He works with patients at Yale New Haven Health’s Smilow Cancer Hospital and encourages them to visit the facility’s healing garden to connect with nature.
Source: WTNH
20 Sep 2022
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Smilow Shares Survivorship Series: Cost of Cancer
On June 22, 2022, in honor of National Cancer Survivors Month, the topic of "The Cost of Cancer" was discussed.
23 Jun 2022
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Health care providers: Expand HUSKY to undocumented immigrants
This letter has been signed by over 350 health care providers in Connecticut who believe that eligibility for HUSKY, Connecticut’s Medicaid program, should be extended to undocumented members of our community.
Source: Medium
28 Mar 2022