MEDICAL RESEARCH AND YNHH
SOPHIE WANG, SAI RAYALA & MICHAEL NDUBISI
Disparities in COVID-19 testing accessibility create tale of two pandemics

While students, faculty and staff at Yale enjoy a convenient COVID-19 test scheduling system and next-day results, New Haven residents struggle to find tests, especially amid testing shortages.

January 25, 2022

CHARLOTTE HUGHES, NATALIE MAKABLEH & SADIE BOGRAD
Inside an overburdened ICU: YNHH employees confront Omicron surge

Staff are feeling a different type of stress as hospitals receive hundreds of COVID-19 patients.

January 10, 2022

BRANDON WU
With overflowing emergency department, Yale New Haven Hospital temporarily expands to parking lot

In response to unprecedented volumes of patients and longer duration of stay, Yale New Haven Hospital is temporarily expanding its emergency room to the parking lot.

December 9, 2021

SELIN NALBANTOGLU
Yale cardiologist receives Hal O’Brien Rising Star Award

Attila Feher will attend the High Country Nuclear Medicine Conference as the recipient of the Hal O’Brien Rising Star Award in March 2022 to present his research on microcirculation.

December 9, 2021

MANAS SHARMA
Yale-led studies open doors for treatment of lymphoma and neuroblastoma cancers

Two new Yale-led studies published in Nature on Nov. 24 have revealed further details regarding the anaplastic lymphoma kinase molecule, or ALK, and its role […]

December 3, 2021

SELIN NALBANTOGLU
Yale researchers develop mRNA-based lyme disease vaccine

Yale researchers have developed an mRNA vaccine that targets the antigens found in tick saliva in order to alert individuals to tick bites as well as prevent the tick from feeding correctly, thereby reducing its ability to transmit pathogens.

December 2, 2021

VALENTINA SIMON
Ovarian transplant reverses fertility loss in cancer survivors

A novel robot-assisted ovarian transplant procedure can extend organ viability by 14 additional months, culminating in multiple healthy pregnancies in previously infertile patients.

November 30, 2021

KAYLA YUP
Yale professors weigh in on the new Omicron COVID-19 variant

Yale professors spoke on what is known and unknown about the Omicron variant and criticized U.S. policy aimed at limiting transmission.

November 30, 2021

YASH ROY
Yale researchers unlock secrets through study of long-term effects of COVID-19

Yale researchers expand their work on long COVID in conjunction with Survivor Corps to study how vaccinations are affecting long COVID symptoms.

November 28, 2021

VALENTINA SIMON
Yale researchers discover that novel antiviral effectively targets numerous COVID variants

A Yale study found that an RNA-based antiviral recruits the innate immune system in the body’s fight against COVID-19, indiscriminately fighting many variants of the virus and bringing new hope to immunocompromised patients.

November 15, 2021

MAI CHEN
Yale researchers link higher levels of low density cholesterol with decreased risk of hemorrhage

A recent Yale study links elevated lipid levels with decreased risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage, a type of stroke caused by brain aneurysms.

November 12, 2021