MEDICAL RESEARCH AND YNHH
LAURA OSPINA
After mass firing of migrant workers, Unidad Latina en Acción calls on Yale New Haven Hospital to cut janitorial subcontractor

The advocacy group protested outside of Yale New Haven Hospital on Monday night after YNHH subcontractor AffinEco allegedly discriminated against migrant workers on the basis of their immigration status and threatened to call immigration authorities on the workers.

December 6, 2023

ROHAN LOKANADHAM
Yale experts weigh in on new method of organ harvesting

A new method of organ harvesting has led to ethical backlash and prompted discussion over the medical and legal definition of death.

December 6, 2023

FAREED SALMON
Yale study sheds light on new findings on the causes of long Covid symptoms

Researchers at Yale have determined that neuroinflammation and blood-brain barrier dysfunction are not legitimate causes of neuropsychiatric symptoms of long Covid.

November 30, 2023

ABEL GELETA
Faculty offer insight on the role of AI in radiology

The impact of artificial intelligence in the healthcare sector is continuously expanding as novel technologies shape care methodologies and practices.

November 17, 2023

LUCIANA VARKEVISSER
Empowering recovery: Yale researchers awarded $7 million to research opioid use

The grant, which comes from the NIH and NIDA, will allow the researchers to study treatment retention.

November 13, 2023

ASUKA KODA
Yale biomedical engineers develop nanoparticle brain cancer treatment

A team of biomedical engineers at Yale recently developed a new method to treat medulloblastoma — a brain cancer that primarily affects children — by injecting drug-carrying nanoparticles directly into the cerebrospinal fluid.

November 9, 2023

ALEXANDRA MARTINEZ-GARCIA
Yale researchers discover gaps between in-person and online facial processing in the brain

A new study at the School of Medicine’s Brain Function Laboratory found that when processing faces on Zoom versus in-person, behavioral indicators and neural activity change.

November 9, 2023

CARLOS SALCERIO
Yale researchers reflect on adolescent bariatric surgery

Following new guidance this year from the American Academy of Pediatrics on treating children with obesity, the News spoke with several researchers and professors about what the change might mean for bariatric surgeries performed on adolescents.

November 9, 2023

ERIN HU
Yale study examines way to reduce gender wage gap for physicians

A new study discussed how increasing physician productivity might be able to bridge the gender wage gap among physicians.

November 6, 2023

HANNAH MARK
Yale joins new Zuckerberg-funded biomedical research collaboration 

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub in New York plans to connect researchers to work on engineering immune cells to fight disease.

November 6, 2023

ALEXANDRA MARTINEZ-GARCIA
Details of Yale New Haven Health’s attempts to acquire three Prospect Medical hospitals go confidential

As negotiations over Yale New Haven Health’s acquisition of three Connecticut-based Prospect Medical Holdings hospitals have gone private, officials and health policy experts told the News they hope the deal wraps up soon.

November 3, 2023