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Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) celebrated the second YNHHS Innovation Awards Ceremony, where five outstanding teams were each awarded $100,000 to bring their groundbreaking projects to life.

“More than half of mammograms performed in the U.S. now are 3D, and its use is increasing,” says John Lewin, MD, the chief of the breast imaging division at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut.

Smilow Shares with Primary Care: Soft Tissue/Bony Lumps.

The findings of a new Yale study suggest physical frailty may be a target for intervention.

The fifth annual early autism conference at Yale took place on Thursday, April 18, 2024, with approximately 100 participants. The event was hosted by the Yale Child Study Center Social and Affective Neuroscience of Autism (SANA) Program, directed by Emily Fraser Beedy Professor Kasia Chawarska.

Although dropping the age for screening to 40 years old is a good thing, the recommendations fall short in other ways, says Parisa Lotfi, MD, a Yale School of Medicine assistant professor of radiology and a radiologist and breast imager at Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut. “Studies support annual screening to save the maximum number of lives. The task force fell short in that it is recommending mammography every two years,” says Dr. Lotfi.

Theranostics and Advanced Treatment Options for Prostate Cancer.

Yale researchers propose that brain states and brain waves may be two parts of the same occurrence — and they discuss why that matters.

“It’s not a perfect science by any stretch,” said Dr. John Lewin, chief of breast imaging at Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center. When it comes to A.I. analysis of mammograms, “we may not find out for a couple of years if our performance went down,” Dr. Lewin said.