Research is uncovering ways in which sex as a biological variable affects health. The social environment’s effect on our biology also is increasingly acknowledged, along with data indicating that these effects vary by gender. Thus, both biological sex and gendered experience can play a role in the physiological mechanisms of disease. A newly published paper in the journal Cell asserts that despite the challenges in navigating the paradigm shift required to study the effects of sex and gender as well as the biological and social determinants of health, the future of science is to study how these factors intersect.
Yale faculty members Michelle Hughes, MD, assistant professor of medicine (digestive diseases), and Anne Mongiu, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery (colon and rectal), are launching a new campaign, Loving Your Guts, to promote colon health. The campaign, which kicks off during Colon Cancer Awareness Month, includes research and community outreach efforts on food deserts and swamps in the state of Connecticut and their impact on early-onset colorectal cancer and other gastrointestinal conditions that are influenced by diet, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Twelve Yale School of Medicine faculty members are among the leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine newly elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.
Three Research Scientists and four Yale School of Medicine faculty of the Yale Cancer Center were celebrated in mid-February 2025 during a celebration in downtown New Haven.
Researchers across Yale School of Medicine published a new study in The Journal of Clinical Investigation that sheds light on how SGLT2 inhibitors work to protect the heart.
“The old adage ‘take two aspirin and call me in the morning’ may now find a new meaning,” said Dr. Pamela Kunz, chief of GI medical oncology at the Yale School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study.