Even as the COVID-19 pandemic reaches grim new milestones, with 18 million U.S. cases and nearly 320,000 U.S. deaths as of Dec. 22, the emergence of multiple vaccines offers hope that an end to the crisis could be in sight. Two vaccines, by Pfizer and...
People diagnosed with an inflammatory skin condition known as granuloma annulare (GA) develop raised red lesions that emerge in ring-like patterns on the skin. For those with a chronic condition, these lesions can cover much of the body and degrade their...
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, will also lead a new White House task force dedicated to health equity.
Nunez-Smith, an associate professor of internal medicine, public health, and management at...
When Yale researchers began studying cases of COVID-19 among children, they expected that they would find that the disease afflicted Black and Hispanic children at higher rates, just as it had in the adult population.
It turns out the unequal burden borne...
Five years ago, a Yale-led partnership launched a landmark study to identify the biomarkers, or biological indictors, of autism that could help diagnose, track, and assess treatments in patients.
Since then, the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical...
Yale’s Saad Omer has devoted his career to studying the spread of respiratory diseases like influenza and SARS CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, and how society can increase vaccination rates.
In an interview with YaleNews, Omer, a professor at Yale School of...
When Yale’s Howard Forman started rating colleges’ online COVID dashboards on Twitter this past September, he imagined it would remain a personal, ad-hoc exercise. Forman, a professor at the School of Public Health and School of Management, often uses the...
Many parents of dyslexic children worry about their kids’ chances of success after high school, including whether they’ll be able to shoulder a college workload, Yale researchers say. Yet there has been little research into the experiences of these...
Researchers have long known that many people (mostly women) suffering from anorexia face a high risk of death. But, until now, they didn’t know what causes the eating disorder to turn fatal.
In a research letter published in the Oct. 26 edition of Nature...