Millions of Americans don’t have easy access to facilities that dispense oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19, according to a new Yale study. In some parts of the country, researchers found, people have to travel 30 minutes or more to get them.
The...
For the past few years, Elias Jaffa worked at a community hospital in rural South Carolina. The job, he says, expanded his perspective on medicine.
Jaffa, an expert in point-of-care ultrasound who recently joined Yale’s Department of Emergency Medicine,...
When cells in the human body sense a change in the environment, molecules known as kinases can help them respond: these specialized enzymes activate proteins, propagating signals within a cell that ultimately alter its function. Yet if scientists want to...
Early diagnosis of uterine cancer is known to improve a patient’s chances for survival, but previous research has found that Black patients are less likely to receive early diagnoses than people of other racial and ethnic groups. A new analysis by Yale...
Physician turnover is disruptive to patients and costly to health care facilities and physicians alike. In a new study, Yale researchers used machine learning to reveal the factors — including the length of a physician’s tenure, their age, and the...
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...