Three Yale researchers have won 2018 ‘High Risk, High Rewards’ grants from the Common Fund of the National Institutes of Health, which intends to fund “major opportunities and gaps in biomedical research that require trans-NIH collaboration to succeed.”...
Mothers and babies are dying due to birth-associated complications at higher rates now than a decade ago. In a new study appearing online in Birth, Katherine Campbell, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the Yale...
Yale’s New Haven Community Hiring Initiative has been helping members of the New Haven community find jobs at the university by developing talented, local candidates to fit a variety of open positions. Chris Brown, director of the initiative, recently met...
“Medicine and health sciences don’t exist in isolation from their broader social, cultural, and political contexts,” said Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, and adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of...
Many top hospitals in the United States are making it unduly confusing or expensive for patients to gain access to their own medical records, say researchers at Yale. Their study appeared on Oct. 5 in JAMA Network Open.
Since the Health Insurance...
The Yale Child Study Center’s Comer School Development Program (SDP) is hosting two events at the Omni Hotel in New Haven on Oct. 22-23 in celebration of its 50th anniversary. There will be a celebratory dinner followed by a day-long symposium called, “...
Despite the conventional belief that for women giving birth “once a cesarean always a cesarean,” the practice of attempting vaginal delivery after cesarean — also known as “trial of labor after cesarean delivery” (TOLAC) — is safe for many second-time...
Endometriosis — a condition caused by uterine tissue growing outside of the organ — affects 10% of reproductive-aged women, whom it causes chronic pain that is significant and debilitating. The standard first-line treatment for all women with...
Leading contemporary painter George Shaw grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on the Tile Hill “council estate,” a government-developed suburban community for the working-class Briton — not unlike American urban housing projects of the mid-century. When Shaw...