Health & Medicine

Each year substance use disorder robs millions of people of health, self-respect, and even life. Patients who make their way to treatment face an arduous path.

Increased rates of sexually transmitted infection in counties with fracking in Ohio are thought to be caused by the industry’s young, male, transient workforce.

Founded by Adebayo Alonge (SOM ’16) and Amy Kao (SOM ’17), the pharmaceutical startup RxAll grew out of a meeting during the 2015 Yale Healthcare Hackathon.

Stephen G. Waxman, the Bridget Flaherty Professor of Neurology (The MIT Press)

Professor Jaehong Kim, seven students, and two teaching assistants worked with Water Health International, based in Hyderabad, India.

Through resources on campus, community programs and partnerships, international research, and more, Yale is promoting wellbeing both locally and globally.

Some of the things we think of as “mental health problems” are actually poverty problems, argues Annie Harper of the Yale Department of Psychiatry.

An increase in the level of the molecule striatal-enriched phosphatase, or STEP, is a common denominator in cognitive decline in numerous species.

Three Yale faculty members — Dr. Nita Ahuja, Dr. Clifford Bogue, and Vasilis Vasiliou — were appointed to endowed professorships.

Vasiliou investigates the mechanisms of cellular responses to environmental stress and gene-environment interactions involved in a number of diseases.