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Ailments of a Graying Population: Why Aging is Everyone’s Business

Ailments of a Graying Population: Why Aging is Everyone’s Business

William Zhang May 11, 2013 0

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

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Waking Up to the Mechanism of African Sleeping Sickness: Serendipitous Discovery Yields New Clues for Prevention

Waking Up to the Mechanism of African Sleeping Sickness: Serendipitous Discovery Yields New Clues for Prevention

Stephany Rhee May 11, 2013 0

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

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Post-Hospital Syndrome: The Revolving Door of Hospital Readmissions

Post-Hospital Syndrome: The Revolving Door of Hospital Readmissions

Qiaonan Zhong May 11, 2013 0

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

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You’re More than You Eat! Recent Research Verifies Link Between Gut Biota and Malnutrition

You’re More than You Eat! Recent Research Verifies Link Between Gut Biota and Malnutrition

Jayanth Krishnan April 5, 2013 1

Researchers have uncovered the critical role that gut microbes play in establishing patterns of disease and physiology related to malnutrition

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Bypassing Hormones: A New Hope for Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Bypassing Hormones: A New Hope for Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Blake Smith April 3, 2013 0

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

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Outliving the Earth: Breaking through Limitations on the Survival of the Human Race

Outliving the Earth: Breaking through Limitations on the Survival of the Human Race

Jessica Schmerler April 3, 2013 0

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

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Tamiflu Unveiled

Tamiflu Unveiled

Selin Isguven February 25, 2013 0

Is Tamiflu actually effective against seasonal influenza

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Optimistic Outlooks: Positivity toward Aging Helps Seniors Recover from Disability

Optimistic Outlooks: Positivity toward Aging Helps Seniors Recover from Disability

Jiahe Gu February 14, 2013 0

Positive outlooks towards aging facilitates recovery in the elderly

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The Experts Discuss the AIDS Crisis: A Recap of the HIV/AIDS Panel

The Experts Discuss the AIDS Crisis: A Recap of the HIV/AIDS Panel

J. David McPeek February 14, 2013 0

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

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Ruthless Microbes: The Greatest Epidemics in History

Ruthless Microbes: The Greatest Epidemics in History

Ananth Punyala February 4, 2013 0

History’s most notorious diseases, in increasing order of the chaos they caused

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