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Yale doctors confront an opiate crisis in the city and a bad night in the ED

On the night of June 23, it was all hands on deck in the emergency department at Yale New Haven Hospital. They were running out of resuscitation rooms and breathing tubes. Patients were put in overflow rooms, and doctors and nurses came from other departments to keep up with the flood of patients. The pace was unrelenting—beginning at 4 p.m. and lasting for six hours. The emergency staff had never seen anything like this before. (more…)

STD may heighten risk of prostate cancer

By Guest PostJune 28, 2014Healthamerican men, dominique meyer, eduard vorobyov, human infection, inflammatory response, opiate crisis, parasite, prostate cancer, risk, treatment, tumor cells, ucla, universeller dna

Could a common sexually transmitted infection boost a man’s risk for prostate cancer?

In a new study, Patricia Johnson, a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, explored the connection between prostate cancer and the parasite that causes trichomoniasis, the most common non-viral sexually transmitted infection in men and women. (more…)

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Yale doctors confront an opiate crisis in the city and a bad night in the ED

STD may heighten risk of prostate cancer