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MARISA PERYER
Smilow Cancer Hospital first in CT to perform new cancer treatment

Yale New Haven Health’s Smilow Cancer Hospital is the first hospital in Connecticut to use an innovative new immunotherapy called chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, […]

March 29, 2019

KATHERINE DU
Panel discusses cadaver dissections

On Wednesday evening, the Yale Center for British Art hosted a panel discussion called “Revealing the Invisible.” The event explored the prevalence of this theme […]

March 29, 2019

ISHANA AGGARWAL
Researchers win $40 million to study opioid addiction

Yale School of Medicine researchers received $40 million in grants from the Veterans Affairs Cooperative Study for the purpose of studying treatment for opioid addiction, […]

March 29, 2019

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KYOUNG A LEE
School of Medicine provides opioid withdrawal drug training for students

Last Friday, final-year medical students at Yale School of Medicine participated in a mandatory four-hour training course for prescribing buprenorphine — a drug that helps […]

March 29, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Yale researchers weigh in on vaping epidemic

In a matter of years, e-cigarettes have spread across the country and into the hands of nearly four million adolescents, according to the National Youth […]

March 28, 2019

MARISA PERYER
Med school unveils portrait of beloved faculty member

On March 11, the Yale School of Medicine unveiled a portrait honoring the late Carolyn Slayman, beloved chair and Sterling Professor of genetics as well […]

March 28, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Esketamine to become available for Yale students

A variant of the popular ’90’s party drug ketamine that was discovered to treat severe depression, called esketamine, will be available to Yale students within […]

March 28, 2019

MARISA PERYER
85 Yale Med students match with residency programs

For many graduating medical school students across the country, March 15 — or Match Day —  marked a jovial end to a grueling months long […]

March 28, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
New childhood anxiety treatment focuses on the parents

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly one in three American children will experience at least some kind of anxiety disorder before reaching […]

March 26, 2019

KYOUNG A LEE
Researchers find fatal neurological effects of drug overdose

A new study suggests that many drug overdose patients suffer from potentially-fatal brain swelling, a symptom that doctors typically do not look for when treating […]

March 26, 2019

MATT KRISTOFFERSEN
Institute for Global Health launches Sustainable Health Initiative

On Feb. 25, the Yale Institute for Global Health announced the launch of the Sustainable Health Initiative, a startup accelerator geared towards improving public health […]

March 8, 2019