Nearly half a million firearm injuries were treated in emergency departments (EDs) nationwide between 2009 and 2014. Yet few victims are provided information on how to prevent repeat injuries, which are common, says a Yale researcher in a new study.
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Does your mind lie to you about what will make you happy? Are popular notions of happiness supported by science? To explore these questions, three Yale faculty members — Professors Laurie Santos, Hedy Kober, and Molly Crockett — discussed the neuroscience...
The play4REAL Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games has received a gift from Oculus Education, a Facebook-owned technology company, to develop virtual reality (VR) educational tools that target vaping among teens.
The play4REAL Lab has...
Much of the research on HIV has focused on preventing infection but little is understood about how the body keeps the virus in check post-infection. A new study by Yale investigators reveals the role of a protein that serves to block HIV gene expression...
Using sophisticated computational tools, researchers at Yale University and the Icahn School of Medicine have discovered biomarkers that may explain why symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be so severe for some people and not for others...
Yale researchers have discovered several genetic variants that signal the risk of serious suicide attempts and noted some variants have also been linked to major depressive disorder, they report Jan. 17 in the journal Translational Psychiatry.
The whole...
The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Yale School of Medicine kicked off the start of a new project to combat elder mistreatment (EM) with a community event at Monterey Place in New Haven, Connecticut on Friday, Jan. 4.
“We are honored that...