After completing a medical residency at Yale, Dennis Shung stuck around for a fellowship. Then he stayed to earn a master’s degree, and then a Ph.D. Last summer he became an assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine.
Shung says it’s the quality of...
As many U.S. states adopt policies that legalize the commercialization of cannabis, Yale School of Medicine recently announced the creation of the new Yale Center for the Science of Cannabis and Cannabinoids, which will investigate the acute and chronic...
A growing number of researchers have more than two grants simultaneously from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but women and Black researchers are less likely than white men to be among them, a new Yale study finds. This disparity, the researchers...
Nearly six years ago, Mancy Tong moved to New Haven from New Zealand for postdoctoral training at Yale School of Medicine. Now she’s launching her own Yale lab as an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences.
We recently...
Most people with obstructive sleep apnea — a condition in which normal breathing is regularly interrupted during sleep — are prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine as treatment. Yet many people do not use their devices as often...
In August 2022, U.S. health officials declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency. At that time, however, the national supply of the approved preventative treatment — the smallpox/mpox vaccine Jynneos — was severely constrained,...
Roughly 300 babies are delivered outside hospitals each year in Connecticut, some intentionally and some not, and around 10% will need resuscitation. For the past year, Brooke Redmond, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and...
Since the 1960s, the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine has piqued interest as a potential treatment for opioid addiction, fueled by limited experimental evidence and anecdotal claims by those who claim they no longer felt a craving for opioids after taking...
Applicants and matriculants to U.S. medical schools in recent years have increasingly come from households with higher incomes, a new Yale-led study reveals. The findings, the researchers say, raise questions about who has access to medical education and...
Though 30% of the global burden of disease is treatable through surgery, surgeon-scientists make up less than 2% of U.S. researchers who receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a new Yale-led study finds. This underrepresentation...