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Negative early life experiences, such as attending segregated schools, contribute significantly to cognitive decline and cognition disparities between older Black and white Americans, according to a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

Richard Marottoli, MD, MPH, Yale professor of medicine (geriatric medicine), offers ways to improve one’s balance and avoid falls.

The program will advance innovative research, and help facilitate the sharing of ideas, data, and knowledge to drive biomedical progress, therapeutics, and cures focused on combatting Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Yale Medicine experts discuss how treatments and coping strategies can help.

In an interview, Yale School of Medicine's Snigdha Jain, MD, MHS, discusses the inspiration behind her research focus on older adults, the role of social factors in quality of care, and why people of all ages should strive to be active during hospital stays.

When it comes to stroke treatment, every minute counts. A new study identifies factors associated with treatment delays — and targets for intervention.

Has it become harder to get in and out of bed, sit down in a chair, or stand up from one? Take note of that, says Richard Marottoli, MD, MPH, a Yale Medicine geriatric medicine specialist and a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. If that’s happening, Marottoli says, “then the question is, why is that? And what can we do about it? Is there some underlying physical problem that we can deal with?”

Sandra Alfano, PharmD, research scientist (general internal medicine), Yale School of Medicine (YSM), and senior research analyst, Conflict of Interest Committee, Yale University, will retire in June.

Snigdha Jain, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Yale, has won the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Research Emerging Career Award. The honor is given to an early career individual with demonstrated potential to make outstanding scientific and scholarly contributions to lung diseases, critical illness, or sleep disorders.