The membrane that encases a biological cell is not simply a barrier; it is chock full of proteins involved in all sorts of critical biological functions. To really understand what membrane proteins are doing and how, researchers need to know how they’re...
In cases of opioid use disorder, short-term medically managed withdrawal (commonly known as detox) and long-term rehabilitation treatments that don’t incorporate continued use of buprenorphine or methadone are no more effective at preventing overdose...
When Yale leaders decided, in 2019, to move into several floors in 100 College St., a 13-story building in the heart of New Haven, it represented something much bigger than scoring new research space.
It offered a historic opportunity to pursue key...
Exercise intolerance, or the inability to perform physical activity at the expected or desired level, is one of the many symptoms associated with long COVID. In a study, Yale researchers help explain what specifically is driving this symptom, offering...
A campus exhibition recounts many of the notable contributions made by Yale School of Nursing, a school that began a century ago as an experiment to transform nursing education in the United States.
But the exhibit, which is on display at the Harvey...
Experiences of discrimination and acculturation are known to have a detrimental effect on a person’s health. For pregnant women, these painful experiences can also affect the brain circuitry of their children, a new study from Yale and Columbia University...
Emergency departments (EDs) are critical settings for treating opioid use disorder, but few ED physicians initiate treatments like administration of buprenorphine, a drug known to activate the brain’s opioid receptors and help patients safely manage and...
A federal program created to attract physicians to medically underserved areas of the United States has not achieved this intended effect or reduced mortality rates in these regions, a new Yale study finds. The researchers say new approaches may be needed...
Kia Nobre really had no intention of leaving Oxford. A renowned cognitive neuroscientist, she’d chaired the venerable university’s Department of Experimental Psychology for several years and directed the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, where she...
Yale School of Nursing began as an experiment.
In 1923, after a national committee concluded that the training of nurses in the United States was, in short, “inadequate,” the Rockefeller Foundation funded a new approach to nursing education.
With an...