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Women Experience Pain and Addiction Differently
WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., discusses how women experience pain and addiction differently on NPR's "Morning Edition"
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Chen and Team Win Award from 2019 NIDA $100K SUD Startup Challenge
Kevin Chen, MD, fellow, National Clinical Scholars Program, and his team recently won an award as part of the 2019 NIDA $100K SUD Startup Challenge. Sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the award is given to 10 winners for their startup projects to improve the well-being of those with substance use disorders.
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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.
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Better Science, Better Lives for Women and Men: Q&A with Carolyn Mazure
WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure discusses how we are at a critical point, and the scientific community needs to decide if it will embrace true transformational change in science.
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WHRY funds studies on pain relief, cannabis, and genetic origins of sex differences in disease
WHRY announces funding for first-of-their-kind studies on pain relief, cannabis, and the genetic basis of sex differences across a broad range of ailments, including Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease.
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Yonkers, Forray Co-PIs on New Grant to Study Medication Delivery for Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorders
Kimberly Yonkers, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services, and Ariadna Forray, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, are co-principal investigators on a new $5.5 million grant to study models to improve delivery of office-based medication treatment for pregnant women with opioid use disorder in prenatal clinics.
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Potenza to receive honorary professorship from Eotvos Lorand University
Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, will receive an honorary professorship from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
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How Alcohol Affects Your Health Can Differ for Women and Men
If a woman drinks the same amount of alcohol as a man, will the effects be the same for her? What if they weigh the same? WHRY's latest video explores how, when it comes to drinking, women and men are not identical.
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Why We Need to Study Sex and Gender
Count to eight, and somewhere in the United States a baby will be born. You might imagine that this newborn has an equal chance of being female or male. But that’s not the case.
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As the Vaping Epidemic Continues, Researchers Point to Well-known Health Risks Associated with Nicotine
Despite the onslaught of reports and articles highlighting not only the dangers of vaping, but the marketing tactics seemingly aimed to hook teens and young adults, the number of people who vape continues to climb.
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Yale lab receives gift to develop VR game against youth vaping
The Yale play4REAL Lab has received another gift from Oculus Education to expand its work on smokeSCREEN VR, a virtual reality game created to prevent adolescent e-cigarette use.
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YSPH Researchers Awarded More than $9.4 Million in Grants
Three research grants totaling more than $9.4 million have been awarded to Yale School of Public Health researchers, further strengthening the school’s leadership in emerging fields of public health.
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Neural Fingerprints ID Those Likely to Abstain from Cocaine
By measuring the strength of connections between different brain networks, Yale researchers successfully predicted who would abstain from cocaine during treatment, they report Jan. 4 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Opioid crisis roadmap overlooks gender
Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) is calling on a government committee to revise its report on a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic so that it reflects the unique needs of women.
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Potenza Receives Marvin A. Steinberg Lifetime Achievement Award
Marc Potenza, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine and Senior Research Scientist at the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling (CCPG), received the Marvin A. Steinberg Lifetime Achievement Award from the CCPG on Oct. 23.
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$20 Million Grant Will Fund Continued Research by Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science
The National Institute of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have renewed a $20 million grant for the Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) to continue to investigate the influence of flavors and sweeteners, and other constituents, on the appeal and addictive potential of traditional tobacco products and newer products like e-cigarettes.
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Doctors And Policymakers Struggle To Keep Up As Opioid Use Surges Among Women
Women are both uniquely susceptible to prescription opioids and face additional structural barriers to accessing addiction treatment.
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Experts Say The Response To The Opioid Epidemic Is Overlooking Women
Researchers, including WHRY Director Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure, say more should be done to understand how women are affected differently than men by the opioid epidemic.
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This Is (Actually, Accurately) Your Brain on Drugs
WHRY Explores How Cannabis May Affect Men and Women Differently
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Opioid epidemic responses overlook gender
In a commentary published in The Lancet, Women’s Health Research at Yale Director Carolyn M. Mazure, and Yale Program in Addiction Medicine Director David A. Fiellin, M.D., called for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers to account for the different ways in which women encounter opioid addiction and treatment.
