Students in the School of Public Health’s (YSPH) “Soda Politics” course are watching an advertisement. In the ad, celebrity Kendall Jenner poses at a photo shoot as a group of protesters walks down the street. At first hesitant, Jenner is eventually drawn...
In the United States, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic populations, with those groups experiencing higher COVID-19-related death rates than non-Hispanic white Americans. But a new Yale-led analysis of these disparities in...
As a medical resident, Vikas Gupta came across many patients with what are known as fibrosing diseases, ailments in which tissues become scarred, causing other complications, and for which there are limited treatment options. He eventually decided to...
Yale was not on Jaelen King’s radar as a high school student. He only considered applying after earning an excellent score on the SAT exams — and some firm nudging from his mom.
And his first few months on campus, he admits, were a challenge. But he...
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and aspirin are widely used to treat pain and inflammation. But even at similar doses, different NSAIDs can have unexpected and unexplained effects on many diseases, including heart disease...
Cooking has always brought Nellie Conover-Crockett joy. She has made her own birthday cake since the age of five and in high school she frequently tackled family dinner. Once at Yale, she often reserved the student kitchen to cook with and for friends,...
Miscarriage affects an estimated 15% of pregnancies, but in about half of cases the cause is unclear. At Yale, reproductive immunologist Vikki Abrahams and reproductive biologist Mancy Tong are interested in shedding light on one of these causes.
In a...
Lamia Haque may be a new faculty member, but she’s no stranger to Yale. She came to the university as an internal medicine resident in 2013 and stayed to complete fellowships in addiction medicine, digestive diseases, and advanced transplant hepatology....
What if scientists could study human psychiatric illness in plants? Yale researchers think it’s possible and they’ve taken an important first step. In a study published June 2 in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, they investigated a gene very similar...
Physician scientists with both medical degrees and Ph.D.’s are major contributors to the biomedical workforce. While they represent just 4% of medical school graduates in the United States, they receive around half of all the National Institutes of Health...