In a new analysis, investigators at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) and Harvard indicate that in Massachusetts, a state with a high vaccination rate, the most recent wave of SARS-CoV-2 infection was not associated with an...
Jodi Sherman, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Yale School of Medicine and of epidemiology in environmental health sciences at Yale School of Public Health, will testify Sept. 15 at a U.S. Congressional hearing on what it will take to prepare...
Researchers discovered what may be a new approach for creating neuropsychiatric drugs, using a virtual library of compounds derived from chemistry developed by a Yale laboratory.
The new drug candidates they’ve identified through this process could lead...
As far back as kindergarten, Katherine Rotker had her heart set on a career in medicine. A teacher asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she answered, “OB/GYN.”
“They delivered babies, and that sounded fascinating to me,” Rotker says....
In the first study of its kind, Yale researchers found striking differences in the mortality rate of older Americans within a year of having major surgery. These differences were particularly pronounced for geriatric-specific conditions such as frailty or...
Make way for the vaccine van.
A new “pop-up” clinic makes getting the updated, bivalent COVID-19 booster shot even more convenient by bringing health-giving vaccines to the heart of campus.
The pilot program, a collaboration of Yale Health, Being Well at...
Stacy Malaker is all about putting in the work.
It’s true in sports, which she loves; it’s true in every job she’s had since high school; and it’s true in her chemistry lab at Yale, where she set up shop earlier this year.
An assistant professor of...
Seven Yale faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. It is Yale’s largest group of new AAAS fellows in a decade.
Overall, the new class of...
Peyton Fleagle was just a toddler when his parents first noticed itchy scales appear on his skin. Eventually, the scales covered 95% of Peyton’s body.
Fleagle, who is now 12, has a condition called X-linked ichthyosis, one of an often-disfiguring group of...
A medication that has been found to effectively treat the skin disease alopecia areata in adults is also successful in treating adolescent patients, according to a Yale-led clinical trial.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease characterized by sudden,...