Chinese mothers who were exposed to a high level of certain air pollutants during pregnancy had a higher risk of abnormal fetal growth, according to a new Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) study.
The findings, published in the International Journal of...
Ann Kurth, dean of Yale’s School of Nursing, wants you to understand the vital importance of nurses and midwives to healthcare systems around the globe, including in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions.
“Nurses run hospitals. They run entire...
In 2014, the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone suffered the most severe outbreak of Ebola ever known. By the time the epidemic was contained in 2016, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates there were nearly 29,000 cases...
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, the Malcolm Gillis University Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University, will deliver the 2018 University-Wide Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lecture.
Her lecture, “Essential Solutions and Technologies to Eliminate...
Despite having the medical training to treat the breathing problems of prematurely born babies, doctors in places with fewer resources are continually frustrated by the lack of technology to do so properly.
“They are trained medical experts and they know...
In 2016, a team from Yale’s Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) partnered with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health to launch the Primary Health Care Transformation Initiative (PTI), which aims to improve management skills at health posts, health centers,...
While in the United States heart disease is the leading cause of death, in China it is stroke. People have speculated for years about why the Chinese are predisposed to stroke to a greater extent than heart disease. Some have believed that there is a...
Nearly everyone has been pestered by a housefly — a dilemma easily solved with the quick deployment of a flyswatter. However, not all species of flies are so harmless or so easily dispatched.
In sub-Saharan Africa there is a vastly different, much more...