Amaka Uchegbu
Staff Reporter
amaka.uchegbu@yale.edu
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AMAKA UCHEGBU
With unsafe lead levels, 69 residential college rooms repainted

Sixty-nine residential college rooms were partially repainted due to hazardous levels of exposed lead over spring break. The only residential college confirmed to contain rooms that received new paint was Timothy Dwight.

March 24, 2015

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE, STEPHANIE ROGERS & AMAKA UCHEGBU
Lawsuits claim sexual misconduct by Yale physician

In two federal lawsuits, seven individuals have leveled new charges of sexual misconduct against a Yale doctor and the university that, until last year, employed him.

March 16, 2015

STEPHANIE ADDENBROOKE & AMAKA UCHEGBU
Af-Am House Director Rodney Cohen resigns

Rodney Cohen has resigned from his position as director of the Afro-American Cultural Center.

March 16, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
Global Health Justice Partnership calls for action to lower drug prices

Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership has released a report warning the international community that scientific discoveries will not be enough to prevent the over 500,000 deaths that occur every year from Hepatitis C.

March 5, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
Yale aims to increase clinical trial participation

Leaders of the University and wider New Haven community rolled out a series of new initiatives last week aimed at increasing clinical trial participation.

March 3, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
Tensions flare at mental health forum

Tensions ran high and voices were raised at yesterday’s forum on mental health and counseling. And as students pressured administrators for answers, questions lingered as to whether more transparency would come in the wake of the conversation.

February 26, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
Users say MyChart does not work as advertised

As Yale Health begins to push MyChart enrollment to students, current users are warning students to push back.

February 24, 2015

LARRY MILSTEIN & AMAKA UCHEGBU
Medical Campus Data Center to close

After 15 years, the Yale Medical Campus Data Center will power down for good.

February 24, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
Students skeptical of mental health changes

Yale Health will hire more psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers, Director of Yale Health Paul Genecin announced in a Thursday campus-wide email.

February 20, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
FDA fails to report research misconduct, editorial shows

Physicians at the Yale School of Medicine are calling for improvements in the way the Food and Drug Administration informs the medical community about research misconduct.

February 20, 2015

AMAKA UCHEGBU
YNHH penalized by feds for hospital infection rates

With one of the highest rates of avoidable hospital-acquired conditions in the country, Yale-New Haven Hospital will be penalized by the federal government for the first time in its history. But physicians at Yale and the hospital are questioning the metric used to determine which hospitals to penalize.

February 19, 2015