Medicare plans place few restrictions on the coverage of prescription opioids, despite federal guidelines recommending such restrictions, a new Yale study finds. The research results highlight an untapped opportunity for Medicare formularies to limit...
Thanks to surgery, about 90 percent of infants born with congenital heart disease (CHD) survive to adulthood, but many face a lifetime of related health problems such as neurodevelopmental abnormalities, respiratory problems, and heart arrhythmias.
“We...
Only one in three patients who don’t have primary care physicians and visit the Emergency Department (ED) for care can get a primary care appointment within one week of the ED visit, according to a new Yale-led study. Medicaid patients and those with back...
Yale scientist Nikhil Malvankar has been named a recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award.
An assistant professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale, Malvankar is one of 55 scientists to receive the...
More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast cancer, Yale scientists have pinpointed the molecular mechanism that allows those mutations to wreak their havoc.
The findings, reported Oct. 4 in the...
When disease-bearing mosquitoes expand into new habitats, public health officials should test the ability of new arrivals to transmit viruses at a variety of temperatures, a new Yale-led study suggests.
Scientists have known that temperature plays a key...
For now, Yale clinical faculty member Katherine Malensek isn’t bothered by the fact that the living room in her home is more art studio than sitting space.
More often than not, the room is littered with an easel, paints, crayons, and other supplies, as...