(Left) Blood smears from anemic mice indicate irregular shapes of red blood cells; (right) wild type mice indicate normal shapes of red blood cells.A Yale-led research team used a new gene editing strategy to correct mutations that cause thalassemia, a...
Yale researchers have partnered with investigators at leading research institutions in Connecticut, and with a prestigious counterpart in Israel, to fill a research void in the field of metabolic diseases, which affect billions of people worldwide.
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Thousands of children are hospitalized annually for prescription opioid poisonings, and in recent years, hospitalization rates have nearly doubled among children of all ages, according to a new Yale study that shows toddlers and older teens are...
The opioid addiction and overdose crisis has spurred action among researchers, physicians, and policymakers to promote research and patient care on addiction. Last September, chief of general internal medicine Patrick O’Connor, the Dan Adams and Amanda...
On Nov. 17, 2016, the U.S. Surgeon General and Yale alumnus Vivek Murthy ’03, M.D., ’03 M.B.A. released a landmark report, “Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health.” The comprehensive document marks the...