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Hepatitis C: Why Screening Now Matters for Baby Boomers and Millennials
The good news behind the proposed change in screening recommendations.
20 Nov 2019
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Adult Vaccination Saves Lives. Why Do So Few Adults Get Vaccinated?
Vaccines are among the simplest, most effective, and least expensive ways to prevent serious, and often deadly, diseases. Yet vaccination seems to be an afterthought for many adults.
15 Nov 2019
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Editing mosquito’s gene wards off malaria and halts reproduction
Scientists have looked for immune system factors that might help mosquitoes ward off pathogens such as malarial parasites and indirectly protect humans from infection. Yale researchers found one by editing a single gene, which turns out to be crucial for female reproduction.
28 Oct 2019
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Preventing HIV/AIDS Through Data-Driven Play
A WHRY research project has received new funding to translate the game, called One Night Stan, from a role-playing card game into a videogame intervention prototype designed to empower adolescent black girls to take charge of their health.
10 Sep 2019
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Yale researchers detect unreported Zika outbreak
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) have detected a large unreported Zika outbreak that occurred in Cuba during 2017, a year after Zika outbreaks peaked throughout the Americas.
22 Aug 2019
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Findings Shed New Light On Why Zika Causes Birth Defects In Some Pregnancies
Severe birth defects caused by the Zika virus may be related to the kinds of antibodies infected mothers produce to fight the disease, a study by YSPH researchers and others shows.
16 Aug 2019
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Townsend Lab Receives $4 Million Grant to Study Fungal Evolution
Yale School of Public Health Elihu Professor of Biostatistics Jeffrey Townsend has received a $4 million grant to study fungal evolution and disease progression.
15 Aug 2019
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Study Predicts Modest Impact from Additional Dose of Rotavirus Vaccine
Study: Giving children an additional dose of rotavirus vaccine when they are nine months old would provide only a modest improvement in the vaccine’s effectiveness.
14 Aug 2019
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Can a Combination Immune Therapy Reduce Genital Herpes Outbreaks?
Yale investigators have shown that the combination of a vaccine and a medicated cream is a promising strategy to dramatically reduce the recurrence of genital herpes.
1 Aug 2019
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$5.5 Million Grant Supports Study of Model to Integrate Treatments for Opioid Addiction, Infectious Diseases
As part of a multi-site collaboration involving principal investigators from Columbia University, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville, Yale’s Dr. Sandra Springer will study a new model of treatment for opioid addiction. The investigation is supported by a grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
31 Jul 2019
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High Prevalence of Deadly Bacterial Disease Found in Puerto Rico
Leptospirosis—a potentially deadly bacterial disease — is far more prevalent in Puerto Rico than previously thought, a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds.
30 Jul 2019
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Could Researchers Tackle Two Mosquito-borne Viruses with One Vaccine?
A proposed strategy to vaccinate against Zika infection might also be effective in tackling West Nile disease, another potentially serious infection transmitted by mosquitoes, said Yale researchers in a new study.
28 Jun 2019
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Yale Cancer Center Partners in Fight to Help Eliminate HPV-related Cancers
Yale Cancer Center joins the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) and its partner organizations to endorse a Call to Action for our nation to work together toward the elimination of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers.
27 Jun 2019
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A Bacterial Remnant May Explain Arthritis in Lyme Patients
The tick-borne bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi leaves behind parts of its cell wall in patients’ joints, which appears to trigger an immune reaction that contributes to the inflammation observed in Lyme arthritis patients.
21 Jun 2019
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How an Emerging Tick-borne Pathogen Evades Detection
Human babesiosis is an emerging infectious disease transmitted to humans by ticks. A team of Yale researchers has discovered how Babesia microti, one of the two Babesia parasite species that transmit the disease in the United States, communicates with its host.
19 Jun 2019
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Federal Guidelines May Inadvertently Restrict Women’s Access to Effective HIV Protection
Restrictive recommendations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP) issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) systematically disqualified nearly all women at risk for HIV and/or motivated to use the medication, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and George Washington University have found.
18 Jun 2019
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New MS Program in Infectious Diseases Launching at Yale School of Public Health
Zika. MERS. Ebola. Measles. With new infectious diseases emerging and older diseases re-emerging, the Yale School of Public Health is launching a new one-year Master of Science program with a concentration in the epidemiology of infectious diseases to train analysts and clinicians to fight these threats.
17 Jun 2019
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Better Science, Better Lives: Women's Health Research at Yale is Working for You
Across the country, it’s becoming clearer every day: We must study the health of women. We must study the influence of sex-and-gender differences on health. And it’s time for all aspects of medical research and practice to embrace this change.
17 Jun 2019
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Researchers at Yale School of Public Health, GHLI Receive Funding from Gates Foundation for Global Projects
Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative, in collaboration with international peers, have received Grand Challenges Explorations grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for innovative research.
14 Jun 2019
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The ‘Global Closet’ is Huge—Vast Majority of World’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Population Hide Orientation, YSPH Study Finds
The vast majority of the world’s sexual minority population — an estimated 83 percent of those who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual — keep their orientation hidden from all or most of the people in their lives, according to a new study by the Yale School of Public Health that could have major implications for global public health.
13 Jun 2019