The COVID-19 pandemic has made existing health inequities more apparent than ever. In Louisiana, for instance, Black people account for nearly 77% of hospitalizations and 70% of deaths while representing just 31% of the state’s health system. And...
Electronic alert systems created to provide an early warning of acute kidney injury (AKI) in hospitalized patients have no effect on a patient’s risk of death and may even lead to worse patient outcomes, according to a new study by Yale researchers. ...
When Yale researchers reported in December that a seven-day quarantine, coupled with carefully timed testing, could be as effective as a 14-day quarantine in preventing the spread of COVID-19, it attracted widespread media coverage. In fact, the research...
A new study by Yale researchers found a significant association between the availability of hospital resources — particularly ICU beds — and patient mortality during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This was especially true at hospitals in the...
Each year the U.S. government spends billions of dollars on graduate medical education (GME) at the nation’s hospitals to support postgraduate physician training. But a historically unequal distribution of those funds has prompted policymakers to rethink...
Patients who develop acute kidney injury (AKI) while being treated for COVID-19 have significantly worse kidney function in the months after their hospital discharge than non-COVID patients with AKI, new Yale research finds.
In a study of patients who...
In 2020, a Yale-led team created a high-resolution atlas of all the cells in the human lung, an ambitious project that yielded insights into how cells are affected by the disease Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), which induces progressive scarring of...
Yale’s Marcella Nunez-Smith, a national expert on disparities in healthcare access who is now helping the Biden administration deliver more equitable care and treatment, last week received Visionary Leadership Award from the International Festival of Arts...
For all the attention paid to the short and long-term physical effects of COVID-19, the disease has serious mental health consequences, too.
In a new report, Yale researchers examine how the pandemic is affecting our brains — in particular the prefrontal...
It is well established that autism occurs much more frequently in boys than in girls, and that girls seem to have a greater resilience to developing the condition. It has been unclear, however, why that is.
In a new Yale-led study, researchers find that...