Mallory Locklear

New Haven

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New metric maps pharmacy deserts based on travel time, identifying at-risk communities

3 weeks ago | medicalxpress.com | Mallory Locklear

Local pharmacies fill more than 90% of prescriptions in the United States, making them essential for much of the population. They're also key providers of vaccines and services such as medication management. Much like food deserts—areas where people lack adequate access to affordable, healthy food—pharmacy deserts have too few pharmacies to support the population, and they pose a threat to medication access and public health.
A New Metric to Identify-and Prevent-Pharmacy Deserts

1 month ago | medicine.yale.edu | Mallory Locklear

Local pharmacies fill more than 90% of prescriptions in the United States, making them essential for much of the population. They’re also key providers of vaccines and services such as medication management. Much like food deserts—areas where people lack adequate access to affordable, healthy food—pharmacy deserts have too few pharmacies to support the population, and they pose a threat to medication access and public health.
Your Earliest Memories Might Still Exist - Science Just Found the Clues

1 month ago | scitechdaily.com | Mallory Locklear

Yale researchers have uncovered evidence that babies can store memories far earlier than we once thought. Credit: SciTechDaily.comFor years, scientists believed that our first memories vanished because the brain wasn’t developed enough to store them. But groundbreaking Yale research suggests otherwise. Infants can encode and recall memories—even if we can’t access them later in life.
Why don’t we remember being a baby? New study provides clues

1 month ago | news.yale.edu | Mallory Locklear

Though we learn so much during our first years of life, we can’t, as adults, remember specific events from that time. Researchers have long believed we don’t hold onto these experiences because the part of the brain responsible for saving memories — the hippocampus — is still developing well into adolescence and just can’t encode memories in our earliest years. But new Yale research finds evidence that’s not the case.
Yale Researchers Part of OpenRxiv Launch to Secure the Future of Open Science

2 months ago | medicine.yale.edu | Mallory Locklear

In 2019, Yale helped launch medRxiv, a preprint server that revolutionized how health researchers share their findings. Just months later, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and underscored medRxiv’s critical role in global health research.
Machine learning model predicts PTSD symptom severity over time

2 months ago | medicalxpress.com | Mallory Locklear

The severity of symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varies greatly across individuals in the first year after trauma and it remains difficult to predict whether someone might worsen, improve, or recover. In a new study, Yale researchers used brain imaging and machine learning to build models that were able to predict the severity of PTSD symptoms, in both the short and long term, in people who experienced traumatic events.
Machine learning model predicts PTSD symptom severity over time

2 months ago | news.yale.edu | Mallory Locklear

The severity of symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varies greatly across individuals in the first year after trauma and it remains difficult to predict whether someone might worsen, improve, or recover. In a new study, Yale researchers used brain imaging and machine learning to build models that were able to predict the severity of PTSD symptoms, in both the short and long term, in people who experienced traumatic events.
Immune markers of post-vaccination syndrome indicate future research directions

2 months ago | medicalxpress.com | Mallory Locklear

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have reported chronic symptoms that developed soon after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. This little-understood, persistent condition, referred to as post-vaccination syndrome (PVS), remains unrecognized by medical authorities, and little is known about its biological underpinnings.
Immune markers of post vaccination syndrome indicate future research directions

2 months ago | news.yale.edu | Mallory Locklear

COVID-19 vaccines have been instrumental in reducing the impact of the pandemic, preventing severe illness and death, and they appear to protect against long COVID. However, some individuals have reported chronic symptoms that developed soon after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. This little-understood, persistent condition, referred to as post-vaccination syndrome (PVS), remains unrecognized by medical authorities, and little is known about its biological underpinnings.
Feet first: Understanding how mRNA helps cells 'walk'

Feb 14, 2025 | phys.org | Mallory Locklear

Cells in the body have to move around in order to do their jobs. During development, for instance, cells are distributed to create and grow tissue. And in the event of an immune response, different cells are shuttled around. While this process, known as cell migration, is essential for health, it can also go awry and contribute to disease, including chronic inflammation, fibrotic diseases, and cancer metastasis.