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Yale School of Medicine experts provide tips for older adults who choose to stay at home rather than move into an assisted living facility or nursing home.

Introducing Basile Njei, MD, MPH, PhD, of the Section of Digestive Diseases in the Department of Internal Medicine.

In a new study led by Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Public Health researchers of 10 million insured people aged 45 to 49, researchers found that a recommendation by the United States Preventative Services Task Force to drop the age for starting colorectal cancer screening by five years to age 45 was highly effective — tripling the rate of screening overall — but the magnitude of increase was significantly smaller for low-income and rural populations.

Congratulations to the following Yale Department of Internal Medicine faculty members, who were recently promoted, appointed, or reappointed.

Shortly after, Jill contacted her oncologist, Dr. Eric Winer, director of the Yale Cancer Center, and her therapist, Elizabeth Grill, Ph.D., clinical psychologist at the Center for Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. "I shouldn't be feeling like this. I'm a positive person," Jill remembers telling them.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to a project led by Dr. Qingyu Chen, addressing the challenges of factual inaccuracy and unfaithful reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) for biomedicine and healthcare. Funded by the National Library of Medicine, the project aims to improve the reliability of AI-generated responses in medical applications, ensuring more accurate and trustworthy information to support better decision-making in healthcare.

The 14th Iva Dostanic lectureship took place on Thursday, June 20, 2024 with Lisa Korn, MD, PhD, instructor of medicine (rheumatology, allergy and immunology), presenting her research findings on diet-immune interactions.

The director of the Yale Cancer Center, Dr. Eric Winer, helps put the data into perspective.

According to a new report published by the American Cancer Society, breast cancer associated deaths have decreased by 44% since the late 1980s. “It is probably largely related to very significant improvement in treatments,” said Dr. Eric Winer, of the Yale Cancer Center.