Applicants and matriculants to U.S. medical schools in recent years have increasingly come from households with higher incomes, a new Yale-led study reveals. The findings, the researchers say, raise questions about who has access to medical education and...
Since the 1960s, the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine has piqued interest as a potential treatment for opioid addiction, fueled by limited experimental evidence and anecdotal claims by those who claim they no longer felt a craving for opioids after taking...
Colorectal tumors found in men with a certain genetic mutation display different metabolism than those found in other patients, according to a new Yale study. One key difference in these tumors, the researchers discovered, is a reduced tendency to undergo...
Deena Kelly Costa, one of the newest faculty members at the Yale School of Nursing, studies how to improve intensive care. In her free time, she enjoys reading — a recent favorite was the Gabrielle Zevin novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” —...
Roughly 300 babies are delivered outside hospitals each year in Connecticut, some intentionally and some not, and around 10% will need resuscitation. For the past year, Brooke Redmond, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine and...
In August 2022, U.S. health officials declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) a public health emergency. At that time, however, the national supply of the approved preventative treatment — the smallpox/mpox vaccine Jynneos — was severely constrained,...
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...
Most cells in the bodies of living things duplicate their contents and physically separate into new cells through the process of cell division. But across many species, germ cells, those that become eggs or sperm, don’t fully separate. They remain...
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.
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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...