Many people with schizophrenia in Ghana spend their days chained to walls in prayer camps where they are ministered to by spiritual healers and forced to fast and pray. A new study, based on a partnership between researchers at the University of Ghana and...
In her home country of Kenya, Dr. Christine Ngaruiya has lost family members and loved ones to diseases and afflictions that, in many cases, were preventable — like complications of diabetes and heart disease.
These cases have informed her passions in...
For two weeks in December 2017, Yale ophthalmologist Christopher Teng participated in a medical mission to provide free eye care to villagers in Nepal, a country that was devastated by an earthquake just two years prior. The trip was co-sponsored by...
Most people, at some point in their lives, have had an x-ray. It’s a common practice. In fact, today at Yale-New Haven Hospital alone, every year more than 70 radiologists perform more than one million x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI imaging studies to...