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,...
Peyton Fleagle was just a toddler when his parents first noticed itchy scales appear on his skin. Eventually, the scales covered 95% of Peyton’s body.
Fleagle, who is now 12, has a condition called X-linked ichthyosis, one of an often-disfiguring group of...
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...