Latest News in Biostatistics
A new Yale study is the first to describe the short- and longer-term risk of hospital readmission for older persons who have had major surgery.
- February 19, 2024Source: CNN
How beneficial olive oil is to your health depends on how the product is harvested, processed, stored and used — in farms or mills, grocery stores and your own home. YSPH Assistant Professor Tassos Kyriakides, an olive oil expert, explains.
- February 05, 2024
A clinical trial of Patient Priorities Care showed potential to impact shared decision-making, treatment burden, and nonhealthy days, even amid COVID-19 challenges.
- January 29, 2024
Dr. Jeffrey Townsend on Yale Cancer Answers.
- January 17, 2024Source: CT Public
Olive oil is a thing of beauty—and essential in so much of our cooking. Olive oil sommelier Tassos Kyriakides, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health, teaches us how to better appreciate olive oil – both for its flavor and its health and ecological benefits.
- January 10, 2024
This Spotlight on Teaching focuses on Josh Warren, associate professor of biostatistics, who teaches Bayesian Statistics and its widespread applicability.
- January 02, 2024
A new method from the Yale School of Public Health offers a way to analyze how mutations interact with each other to alter tumor development. The innovation should make it easier to develop targeted therapies that anticipate the evolutionary path of a cancer, then corner and eradicate it.
- January 01, 2024
For the second year in a row, Yale School of Public Health Professor Donna Spiegelman, Sc.D., has been named a top female scientist by Research.com.
- December 07, 2023
A study led by VA Connecticut Healthcare Center/Yale researchers reveals ancestries around the world possess a shared genetic architecture for problematic alcohol use – habitual heavy drinking, accompanied by harmful consequences. Hang Zhou, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and of biomedical informatics & data science at Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut, and Joel Gelernter, MD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry, and professor of genetics and of neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine and VA Connecticut, were first and senior authors, respectively.
- December 05, 2023
Co-hosted by the Yale School of Public Health, the fifth annual International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health is taking place from December 10-13 at Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal.