5 Things Everyone Should Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak
With infections and deaths soaring in China, and concerns rising throughout the world about the potential global impact of SAR-CoV-2 and COVID-19, we provide the five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak.
By Kathy Katella
Yale doctors and engineers are the first to develop and deploy a portable MRI machine to the bedside.
Are heart attacks and the risk factors for heart attacks different in women? Yale Medicine cardiologist Erica Spatz, MD, addresses these and other cardiovascular health questions.
By Carrie MacMillan
Certain injuries—ACL tears, ankle sprains, and stress fractures—are more common in female athletes.
By Kathleen Frey Raven, Colleen Moriarty
The right physician might be one you've never heard of before. Here's a guide to finding who you should consult.
By Kathleen Frey Raven
Doctors sometimes use technical words. When this happens, patients and their families should pause a discussion and ask for clarification. The more you understand about your health, the better you can take care of it. What follows is a list of medical words or phrases you may hear or come across in the news and easy-to-understand definitions.
Like a dance your heart needs to pump in a coordinated fashion so that the blood can move through nice and smoothly.
Clinical device trials push the field of cardiovascular medicine forward to benefit more patients.
Regional anesthesia is the delivery of local anesthetics to block pain signals from nerves in a specific area of the body that will be affected by surgery.
Your doctor may be the smartest, most compassionate, and thoughtful person in the world. But don't let that stop you from getting a second opinion.
John Morton, MD, MPH, chief of Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery for Yale Medicine, answers questions about weight and talks about a unique new weight loss center he expects to launch.
National surveys have shown that e-cigarette use, or vaping, has risen sharply among teenagers and young adults. Yale Medicine addiction experts discuss ways that parents can talk to their kids about vaping.
Some patients with genetically inherited diseases may benefit from advances in the field of gene therapy, a treatment that aims to correct a person's genetic mutation. A Yale geneticist created a gene therapy intended to benefit a single patient and is now testing it in his lab.
