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Ailments of a Graying Population: Why Aging is Everyone’s Business
Carol Orlando was 65 when her family members noticed the first changes. Her social graces began giving way to a detached brusqueness; her eclectic interests, to grinding repetition. Gradually, she lost the ability to
Read More »Waking Up to the Mechanism of African Sleeping Sickness: Serendipitous Discovery Yields New Clues for Prevention
Christian Tschudi from the Yale School of Public Health has replicated the infectious process of African sleeping sickness in a laboratory setting. Scientists acclaim it as the biggest discovery in the field in twenty
Read More »Post-Hospital Syndrome: The Revolving Door of Hospital Readmissions
Described by Professor Harlan Krumholz, the post-hospital syndrome is a 30-day time of vulnerability during which recently released patients experience a higher risk of an array of health issues
Read More »You’re More than You Eat! Recent Research Verifies Link Between Gut Biota and Malnutrition
Researchers have uncovered the critical role that gut microbes play in establishing patterns of disease and physiology related to malnutrition
Read More »Bypassing Hormones: A New Hope for Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Recent studies have shown that a routine surgery holds promise for type II diabetes patients. Previously an uncommon remedy for diabetes, gastric bypass will certainly be reconsidered as it has the potential to be
Read More »Outliving the Earth: Breaking through Limitations on the Survival of the Human Race
With the recent explosive levels of population growth, the human race must overcome a number of obstacles in order to survive. Researchers at Yale in a diverse array of fields have set their minds
Read More »Optimistic Outlooks: Positivity toward Aging Helps Seniors Recover from Disability
Positive outlooks towards aging facilitates recovery in the elderly
Read More »The Experts Discuss the AIDS Crisis: A Recap of the HIV/AIDS Panel
Three Yale researchers met to discuss the nature and state of the AIDS pandemic, touching upon accessibility problems, breakthroughs in medicine, and hopes for the future
Read More »Ruthless Microbes: The Greatest Epidemics in History
History’s most notorious diseases, in increasing order of the chaos they caused
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