How New Ketamine Drug Helps with Depression
The FDA approved the first truly new medication for major depression in decades. The drug is a nasal spray called esketamine, derived from ketamine—an anesthetic that has made waves for its surprising antidepressant effect. Our Yale psychiatrists discuss its benefits and limitations.
By Jennifer Chen
By Kathleen Frey Raven
More teenagers are vaping, putting themselves at risk of becoming addicted to nicotine, a drug that can negatively affect an adolescent's growing brain.
By Colleen Moriarty
Like the better-known midlife crisis, the quarter-life crisis is common. Our Yale Medicine experts urge young people to pay attention to their unique health needs now to avoid problems later in life.
By Carrie MacMillan
This slideshow shows how medical advances have helped children (and adults) with congenital heart defects, which are the most common type of birth defect, affecting about 1 in every 100 babies born in the U.S. each year.
There are cardiovascular risks associated with having cancer or being treated for it. So if you have or ever had cancer, pay special attention to your heart.
By Kathy Katella
Yale Medicine's new chief of pediatric cardiac surgery is building a comprehensive congenital heart program in Connecticut.
The leader of Yale Medicine's heart transplant program wants to make sure no one in Connecticut will have to leave the state for a heart transplant and the complex medical therapy that can help them regain a good quality of life.
Yale Medicine's first female cardiac surgeon shares advice on heart health and discusses the challenges of heart surgery.
By Kimberly Conner
Two Yale Medicine doctors founded the Yale Pediatric Genomics Discovery Program (PGDP) to apply genetic sequencing and rigorous research to help shed light on unexplained illnesses in newborns and children.
Yale Medicine's chief of cardiovascular medicine plans to improve cardiac care by focusing on such areas as discovery science, genetics, research, and population health.
A new service launched at Yale Medicine helps doctors diagnose substance use disorders in patients at the hospital.
Photopheresis, a blood-filtering treatment for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, may be used for graft-versus-host disease and solid organ transplant rejection.
Hip replacements are considered to be one of the greatest success stories in orthopedics. In this slideshow, Yale Medicine orthopedic surgeons share surprising insights about hip surgeries.
