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Media Briefs delivers healthcare news and insights through patient stories and interviews with clinicians and researchers. This page is regularly updated with expert-reviewed content which is available for journalists’ reporting needs. Feel free to run the story in its entirety or just portions and use the photos, both with credit to YNHHS. If you would like to speak with sources quoted in these articles, please contact Arielle Sklar, media content coordinator, Yale New Haven Health, at [email protected] or 203-200-3716.
A recent observational study looking at COVID-19 isolation dormitories showed opening a window could reduce the amount of coronavirus in a room by half. This study highlights the importance of fresh air changes within indoor environments, a core aspect of Yale New Haven Heath’s immediate pandemic response.
A growing number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 are flocking to Facebook support groups to try to understand why their breakfast tastes like cigarettes or their favorite latte smells like tar.
Nathaniel Kleytman, 24, is assisting in an internationally recognized clinical research lab before he heads off to medical school — but that’s just a slice of his turnaround story. Understanding why his achievements hold great significance for the rare disease community requires looking back to his childhood.
Eating disorders among children and teens have surged nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing the pressure on our healthcare system and leaving families scrambling for appropriate care.
“Every time a sleeping baby is disrupted for a heel prick, a vein poke, or other blood draw, it impacts that baby’s quality of life during their course of stay,” said Marta Kenney RN, NICU, Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH). Ms. Kenney has been caring for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for over a decade...
Our first post-vaccine summer has arrived, bringing travel and group activities roaring back to life. With this excitement – your local Emergency Department is likely preparing for “trauma season,” a spike in children's unintended injuries...
The HPV vaccine is highly effective against the cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus, yet only half of teenagers and young adults have gotten all of the doses recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
An eagerness to enhance health and immunity has skyrocketed vitamin sales during the pandemic, yet there is little consensus around the safety and effectiveness of these supplements.......
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that a third of non-hospitalized people who contract COVID-19 experience symptoms weeks to months after the initial infection.......
Each year about a million children under the age of four in the United States have surgery with general anesthesia, leaving millions of parents worried about how to prepare their families......
A new series of studies published in Frontiers of Psychology looking at desire for movement show there are certain triggers that influence motivation to move.......
With the recent news about a potential link between COVID-19 and tinnitus, the medical term for a ringing in the ears, Adam Pearl, MD, chief of Otorhinolaryngology, Bridgeport Hospital, who sees patients with tinnitus on a daily basis, shares information about this condition and ways to protect your hearing.......
Yale New Haven Health has launched Media Briefs, an editorial webpage providing journalists with healthcare news and insights through patient stories and interviews with leading medical experts.......
Several states are reporting significant drops in birth rates over the past year and a June study from Guttmacher Institute found that more than 40 percent of women reported that COVID-19 changed their conception plans.......
Reports of mutations that give the virus an advantage, such as the UK variant, have emerged along with questions around how these mutations will impact immunity......
FDA grants Yale New Haven Hospital Continued Access for donation after circulatory death.....
A survey study published in JAMA Network Open in September 2020 found that U.S. adults were reporting levels of depressive symptoms more than three times higher during the pandemic than before it took hold.....
Across the board, healthcare providers are at the top of the list and need to be empowered when it comes to having conversations with people about vaccines – particularly parents......