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Cancer Warning Signs for Women from Yale's Dr. Elena Ratner
Learn warning signs of women's gynecologic cancers during an episode of the radio show Yale Cancer Answers between Elena Ratner, MD, MBA, and the show's host Eric Winer, MD, director of Yale Cancer Center and president and physician-in-chief of Smilow Cancer Hospital.
17 Mar 2025
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Prostate Cancer Survivorship Care
Yale Urology's intimacy experts work closely with urologic oncologists in a new rehabilitation program for prostate cancer patients.
16 Nov 2023
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Priming the Pump: WHRY and Akiko Iwasaki Take the Long View on Research
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki’s efforts to create a nasal spray vaccine that generates an effective immune response to COVID-19 evolved from work first sponsored by Women’s Health Research at Yale almost two decades ago.
11 Apr 2022
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InvestiDate: A Video Game Empowering Black Teens to Prioritize Their Health
InvestiDate, a video game originating from a WHRY-funded pilot project, empowers Black teens to prioritize their health.
1 Jan 2022
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Yale Study Reveals Social Media Habits of Black Teen Girls and Guides Risk-reduction Video Game
To support the development of a multiplayer risk-reduction videogame for Black teen girls, researchers at Yale conducted a study that sheds light on the social media habits of these teens in evaluating and choosing potential romantic partners. The results were published in the July 24 issue of Social Media & Society.
26 Jul 2021
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Female Orgasm Is Evolution’s Happy Gift
Yale’s Gunter Wagner, the Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Professor Mihaela Pavlicev from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, have theorized that the orgasm is a sort of happy evolutionary gift inherited from older lineages of animals who only ovulate during copulation.
30 Sep 2019
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Preventing HIV/AIDS Through Data-Driven Play
A WHRY research project has received new funding to translate the game, called One Night Stan, from a role-playing card game into a videogame intervention prototype designed to empower adolescent black girls to take charge of their health.
10 Sep 2019
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Yale Alumnus Pledges $5 Million for Yale School of Public Health Fund and Professorship to Advance LGBTQ Mental Health
Yale School of Medicine alumnus David R. Kessler, M.D. ’55, is directing $5 million from his estate to the Yale School of Public Health, part of which is intended for the creation of a David R. Kessler Endowed Professorship. The professorship and accompanying resource fund will support teaching and research associated with improving LGBTQ mental health.
10 Apr 2019
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Understanding Sexually Transmitted Infections — and How to Help Prevent Them
A new video from Women’s Health Research at Yale seeks to improve STI awareness and help young people – particularly women – stay healthy.
26 Sep 2018
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Dean’s Advisory Council for LGBTQI+ Invites Alumni Participation
The Dean’s Advisory Council for LGBTQI+ Affairs at the School of Medicine collaborates with groups across the medical campus to cultivate a vibrant, supportive, and connected community of LGBTQI+ individuals and their allies.
18 Sep 2018
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Betting on a Brighter Future
The Women and Addictive Behaviors Core, led by Dr. Marc Potenza, investigates addictive behaviors with a focus on their effects in women.
23 Apr 2018
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New Opportunities in Medical Education
How WHRY is Helping Integrate the Influence of Sex & Gender on Health into the Curriculum
26 Feb 2018
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Surgery – and an Environment – that Breaks New Ground
Yale was the first medical center in New England to provide gender affirming surgery for male-to-female transgender patients and remains the only site in Connecticut to offer the procedure. The Director of the Gender Affirming Surgery Program, Dr. Stanton Honig, is most proud of the environment that his team has created.
31 Jan 2018
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Don’t Forget About Estrogen
Dr. Karyn Frick explores how sex hormones regulate memory formation, following a path established by her WHRY-funded study, in search of clues to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
9 Jan 2018
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Can a Mobile App Reduce Intimate Partner Violence?
Dr. Trace Kershaw, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will develop a data-driven behavioral intervention using a mobile app designed to improve decision-making for mothers and daughters exposed to violence in the home and reduce high-risk behaviors and future intimate partner violence.
25 Sep 2017
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Understanding Abuse: From Intimate Partner Violence to Spiked Drinks
In her WHRY pilot project, Dr. Suzanne Swan found that in intimate partner violence, women may respond to their partners’ abuse with violence, which then can lead to even more violence from their male partners.
11 Jul 2017
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What You Don’t Know Can Kill You
About one in six of those living with HIV do not know they are infected, leaving them and their sexual partners vulnerable to a disease that kills without treatment.
27 Jun 2017
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Raising the Volume: Yale student-run biomedical journal focuses on sex and gender
One of the primary missions of Women’s Health Research at Yale is training the next generation of scientists to study the influence of sex and gender. And perhaps there is no one better to voice that necessity than a member of that generation.
10 Jan 2017
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Outsmarting Herpes: Researchers Use the Body's Natural Defenses to Stop Outbreaks
Ever since receiving the first of two seed grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale in 2003, Dr. Akiko Iwasaki’s lab has established groundbreaking insights into the transmission, treatment and possible prevention of herpes.
17 Nov 2015
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In SHARE support groups, students take comfort in knowing they are not alone
The survivor of sexual assault, Yale senior Kim (not her real name) says she is “blessed” to have empathetic friends with whom she can share her story.
10 Sep 2014