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Worldwide, the population is getting older, so it’s imperative to understand the cell changes that come with age, stresses Ruth Montgomery, PhD, professor of medicine (rheumatology) and of epidemiology (microbial diseases) at Yale School of Medicine. “Older people are more susceptible to infectious diseases and less responsive to vaccines,” she said.

For starters, it does not mean you have cancer—or that you’re destined to develop it. “There are two times when we see a spike in this sexually transmitted infection: under age 25 and after age 45, when people have new sexual partners,” says Dr. Brinda Emu, an associate professor of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and co-director of the Cancer-ID program at Yale Cancer Center.

Since 1981, the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Center has been helping patients optimize function, independence, and quality of life.

Newsweek spoke with three doctors about the rising rates of colorectal cancer in young people and the lifestyle changes that can help prevent it.

In New Orleans – a city where early epidemics of yellow fever, cholera, and malaria produced the first school of public health and first school of tropical medicine in the United States – the city once more turned its focus to infectious diseases and reducing the global burden, becoming this year’s site of the 2024 American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting. YSPH's Dr. Sunil Parikh presented.

Electronic consults, or “eConsults,” are exchanges between providers in the electronic medical record that allow referring clinicians, often in primary care, to obtain timely specialist input without the need for a separate face-to-face visit. This solution has shown promise in reducing wait times and unnecessary referrals and aligns with the incentivization of health systems by government and commercial payors to improve access and quality of care while reducing cost. Yale’s population health team implemented and evaluated a large-scale eConsult program, and authored a September 2024 publication in PLOS One detailing the process. Using a multi-method approach, the researchers collected qualitative and quantitative data to assess operational outcomes on the implementation of the program and provider satisfaction among referring and specialist providers.

Fabiola Arbelo Cruz, MD; Caroline Dumont, MD, MPH; Emma Lo, MD; Annie Harper, PhD; Billy Bromage, MSW; and Lori Wallace, PhD, MPH advocate in The Hartford Courant for officials to stop displacing the homeless from encampments in Connecticut.

Pharmaceutical industry representatives in Washington are scrambling to measure the damage Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might inflict on one of his favorite targets, the Food and Drug Administration, if he is confirmed as secretary of health and human services.

The 14th annual Closer to Free biking fundraiser for cancer reasearch and care exceeded all previous years.