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YNHH-related news stories
Use this list to locate YNHH-related news stories appearing in the media. Also, check our news releases section for for press information from Yale-New Haven Hospital.
New Haven Register — 11/3/08
Corneal correction: Transplants now giving way to artificial corneas
Corneas are the clear, curved, covers over the eyes’ irises and lenses. They are like windshields of the eyes, offering protection and preventing what’s outside from coming in.
New Haven Register — 11/3/08
Pedestrian safety measures begin near hospital
The city Friday began instituting pedestrian safety improvements around Yale-New Haven Hospital that advocates lobbied for after a medical student was killed last spring as she attempted to cross a major intersection.
New Haven Register — 10/16/08
Major lung cancer advance
Yale scientists have discovered a novel way to assess the risk of lung cancer in moderate smokers, promising new methods to diagnose, and possibly someday treat, the intractable disease, and other forms of cancer.
Yale Daily News — 10/1/08
Practice makes perfect
Meet Sim-Man. He cannot walk, or talk, or do anything regular humans can do. He can, however, fake a myocardial infarction, pretend to vomit or act as if he is dying.
Boston Globe — 9/21/08
Triathletes compete to raise awareness of organ donation
Peter Kenyon calls himself a nurse-motivator - a successful graduate of Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. (Free registration may be required.)
WTNH - News Channel 8 — 9/5/08
Wife gives husband liver and life
Over the course of a marriage, a husband and wife may give each other hundreds of gifts. But none are as precious as the gift of life.
New Haven Register — 9/3/08
A Community Health “Giant” Put To Rest
He was a “humble” man — but also a man who could “rattle cages and make things move.”
New Haven Register — 8/25/08
Strokes strike children, too
Stroke is known to be a leading cause of death in adults. A group of prominent pediatric neurologists now has concluded that strokes in children are not as uncommon as once thought, and they present different symptoms than strokes in grown-ups.
New Haven Register — 8/24/08
A total stranger’s totally selfless act
When Brenda Zmuda made the difficult decision to donate her mother’s kidneys after she died to save the lives of two Connecticut men, she had no idea that nine years later she would be looking for a kidney to save her husband.
New Haven Register — 8/21/08
Brain structure examined in mood disorder research
The size of a small part of the brain that apparently plays a big role in memory and mood disorders is influenced by variations in a blood-vessel gene, Yale researchers have found, suggesting new ways to understand and treat depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.
New Haven Register — 8/18/08
Yale-New Haven puts fledgling telemedicine program to the test
The promise of telemedicine became a potentially life-saving reality last week as Yale-New Haven doctors examined a stroke patient at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital, and OK’d physicians there to dissolve the clot in her brain.
New Haven Register — 8/3/08
Malfunctioning eustachian tubes cause hearing problems
Imagine a drum that cannot vibrate. It would make a softer sound. Likewise, an eardrum that cannot vibrate interferes with hearing.
New Haven Register — 7/11/08
Y-NH holds spot among nation's best hospitals
NEW HAVEN - U.S. News & World Report has ranked Yale-New Haven Hospital 19th on its annual "honor roll" of the best hospitals in the nation, the hospital announced Thursday.
New Haven Register — 6/20/08
Building hope for Nick
Students, faculty and administrators wrote messages on the beam in honor of a Meadowside kindergartner fighting cancer.
WFSB — 5/27/08
Making headway on metastasis
Cancer is more treatable than ever, and it even could become a manageable disease if scientists could understand how malignancies spread from one part of the body to another.
New Haven Register — 5/2/08
‘Miracles’ expected at cancer center
Colleen Zenk Pinter looks good and speaks clearly. She has since she became Barbara Ryan on “As the World Turns” in 1978.
New Haven Register — 4/21/08
Under pressure: Yale School of Medicine is exploring advanced ways to keep deadly aneurysms from bursting
The heart and vascular system stand up to decades of hard work. The heart typically pumps about 70 times a minute. Pulses of blood course through the aorta, the largest artery, to every part of the body. (Registration and fee required. Click here.)
New Haven Register — 4/9/08
Pit viper venom may help stroke victims
A Malayan pit viper is quite possibly the last animal you’d want to share your hospital bed with after suffering a stroke.
Business New Haven — 3/3/08
Panera Shares Bread with YNHH
The 11 Panera Bread bakery-cafÈs in western Connecticut have named Yale-New Haven Hospital the recipient of the proceeds from Panera's Operation Dough-Nation.
Tyra Banks Show — 2/21/08
Breast health featured
Tyra's show featured an interview with Dr. Liane Philpotts, chief of breast imaging and co-director of the Yale Breast Center, and a segment on a woman's first mammogram, performed by the Yale-New Haven Mammography Van. The van was on site in New York City.
New Haven Register — 2/11/08
Y-NH names cancer center VP
Yale-New Haven Hospital has appointed a New York hospital administrator as vice president and executive director of its new Smilow Cancer Center.
Hartford Courant — 1/13/08
Landmark YHHH operation captured on video
The Hartford Courant recently followed Sukru Emre, MD, of Yale-New Haven Hospital through a living-donor liver transplant — the first operation of its kind in Connecticut.
Business New Haven — 12/10/07
Yale's Smilow Hospital to be built green
Yale-New Haven Hospital's cancer center has announced a new name and plans for state-of-the art "green" design.
New Haven Register — 12/6/07
Scientists eye links between exercise, protein, depression
A protein in the brain that surges in response to exercise may lead to an entirely new kind of antidepressant, according to a Yale study published in Nature Medicine.
(Story no longer available online.)
New Haven Register— 11/25/07
Ankle replacement a recent breaktrough
Ankles take a beating, but until recently there was no way to replace the crucial joint. No one knows this better than Damien Diaz, 38, of New Haven. Earlier this month, he received the first total ankle replacement in Connecticut, promising a continued ability to walk and, perhaps, even dance.
(Story no longer available online.)
Yale Daily News— 11/1/07
Y-NH Cancer Center named for Smilow ’54
As Joel Smilow ’54 stood at the podium during a press conference Wednesday to speak about a donation he made recently to the Yale-New Haven Hospital — the largest gift the hospital has ever received — he said he has been brought to tears by cancer twice this week.
New London Day— 10/22/07
Groton teen gets a new liver, his family a new perspective
James Johnson called, in awe. In awe of medicine, miracles and his maker.
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New Haven Register— 10/21/07
Donors honored for giving gift of life
When Ida Ginetti, 58 of East Haven, gave a kidney to her brother Joseph Scali, 63, in January, her emotional reward was walking into his hospital room the day after surgery and seeing how much healthier he looked.
(Story no longer available online.)
WTNH — 10/4/07
October is breast cancer awareness month
The Yale-New Haven Breast Center has a Digital Mobile Mammography Van, the first in New England, making screenings convenient for women in Connecticut. (Video clip)
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