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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.
This teenager’s determination allowed him to recover in half the time
In August of 2020, an Eastern Middle School 8th grade student in Greenwich, CT, Brady Lisjak played travel ice hockey for the Connecticut Junior Rangers alongside his teammates just three months after he underwent an operation to increase the length of his right leg by 2.5 inches.
One woman says it “saved her life”
Researchers at Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine launched a DNA sequencing project in 2019 to discover genetic variations that may be related to certain health conditions.
Perinatal depression is the most common complication of childbearing. Yale New Haven Hospital’s Maternal Wellness Program, which offers evaluation, ongoing individual psychotherapy, screening, psychoeducation, couples therapy and collaboration with other providers, was established in 2020 to support new moms who were particularly hard hit by the pandemic’s ongoing mental health crisis. Recently, the program increased the availability for patient care and provider collaboration by onboarding a new social worker and adding more office space.
One of the first reports describing the abnormal exercise physiology accounting for exercise intolerance in people with long COVID has been published by a team of clinicians from Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, among others.
Since her teenage years, Charlene Toth had one week each month where normal life gave way to cramps, bleeding and exhaustion. After learning that these symptoms were caused by uterine fibroids, Charlene went to Bridgeport Hospital in December 2021 to become the first person in Connecticut to have her fibroids treated with laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation, a minimally invasive treatment for symptomatic uterine fibroids.
When antibiotics were introduced, the medical community was in awe as sick patients improved within hours. Before antibiotics hit the scene in the 1940s there wasn’t much in physicians’ arsenals to fight microbes. Diseases like strep throat and ear infections sometimes led to heart complications and hearing impairment; and infections related to childbirth were rampant.
In April 2020, as the world shuttered and health systems were laser-focused on fighting a novel coronavirus, 25 year old Tianna Borst and her unborn daughter prepared to undergo a transformative surgery at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital (YNHCH) to correct a rare form of spina bifida.
Twice per year our nation’s sleep is upended by the change to and from Daylight Saving Time. The next scheduled disruption is on Nov. 7, when at 2 am the time rolls back an hour to 1 am ending Daylight Saving Time and returning to Standard Time — which is good news for our health.
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.
It all began in November of 2020 when Lind had a strange itch that dissipated in a hot shower. He didn’t think about it until the next month when he tried to grip the car steering wheel and his hands shook violently.
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.....