Last weekend, Yale staff, students, and alumni teamed up with city residents and leaders to repaint the concrete bollards at the intersection of York Street and South Frontage Road in downtown New Haven. The project, which was part of Yale Sustainability...
Diversity in the biomedical workforce leads to more research innovation, higher quality work, and more participation in clinical trials by people in underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. But within this workforce, inequities in representation persist...
Before pursuing a career in nursing, Bridget Basile Ibrahim was an anthropologist. At their core, she says, the two fields are actually quite similar: They require one to take a holistic view of the person in front of you.
Basile Ibrahim, who earned her...
Founded in 2017, the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine focuses on prevention, treatment, and harm reduction for those with — or at risk of developing — unhealthy substance use or addiction. Dr. David Fiellin, professor of medicine, emergency medicine,...
For children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), timely intervention is key. But diagnoses typically rely on questionnaires and observations of a child’s behavior, which are subjective and can lead to delays in treatment.
Yale...
The relationship between weight and brain health in children is less clear than that of obesity in adults, which has consistently been linked to reduced brain health. But a new Yale study indicates that higher weight and higher body mass index may also...
Sandy Cayo is a nurse practitioner, a Ph.D. candidate, and a professor at Yale School of Nursing. She can also now add “actor” to that list, after performing “Antigone” on a virtual stage with a cast that included Taylor Schilling, Keith David, and John...
People taking prescription opioids are more than twice as likely to be involved in a car accident than those who aren’t, research has shown. In fact, between the early 1990s and early 2010s, as opioid use rose sharply in the United States, the number of...
Yale researchers have identified a possible driver of the persistent inflammation that causes irreversible lung damage in patients with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that impairs breathing and digestion.
In a new study, they uncover how a type of...
A Yale study has found that exposure to the common antidepressant Prozac provoked an inflammatory response in human fetal membranes, also known as the amniotic sac.
The effect may reveal an underlying factor in what has been found to be an increased risk...