A highly unusual school semester has ended, and the coming summer will be unlike any in memory. Families are forgoing backyard barbeques and block parties; cities and towns have cancelled carnivals and Fourth of July festivities. Travel carries extra...
Yale clinicians report promising results after treating COVID-19 patients at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) with a drug that reduces hyperinflammation in cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy.
The team initially gave the drug, tocilizumab, to the most...
Researchers at Yale have identified a molecule that plays a key role in the body’s inflammatory response to overeating, which can lead to obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic diseases. The finding suggests that the molecule could be a promising...
Researchers at Yale have found that injury to endothelial cells — the cells lining blood vessels — may be a key driver of COVID-19 severity and death. The findings, published in the June 30 edition of The Lancet Haematology, may help to explain the...
Yale researcher Dr. Kurt Schalper, assistant professor of pathology and medicine (medical oncology), who has made major breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy, received an R37 Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award — granted to...
The rise in diabetes and high blood pressure-related diseases has led to a major need for kidney transplants, but the quality of available organs has been on a steady decline. Now, a new procedure pioneered by Yale School of Medicine and the University of...
Teens are getting licensed to drive later than they used to and missing critical safety training as a result, according to Yale researchers.
In a study in the July 2 edition of the Journal of Adolescent Medicine (PDF), researchers at Yale identified some...
A research team from Yale and Baylor College of Medicine has completed the largest single-cell analysis to date of lungs affected by Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), revealing how cells change in response to the disease and identifying previously...
Yale pharmacology professor Barbara Ehrlich and her team have uncovered a mechanism driving a rare, lethal disease called Wolfram Syndrome and also a potential treatment. Their findings appear in the July 6 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy...
When college students learn specific techniques for managing stress and anxiety, their well-being improves across a range of measures and leads to better mental health, a new Yale study finds.
The research team evaluated three classroom-based wellness...