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Jorge Moreno, MD, assistant professor of medicine (general internal medicine) at Yale School of Medicine, discusses the importance of factors such as exercise and sleep when managing or losing weight.

A recent study published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open found that key diabetes medicines can likely be manufactured at costs far below their current market prices. The economic evaluation, led by Yale postdoctoral associate Melissa Barber, PhD in conjunction with collaborators from Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)), calculated the manufacturing costs for insulins, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2Is), and glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists (GLP1As) – all widely used diabetes medicines.

Yale scientists are working on an alternative treatment for COVID-19, for use in patients whose immune therapies clash with Paxlovid.

For years, Yale School of Medicine's Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS, has been advocating for affordable pricing of insulin, an essential —and sometimes lifesaving—drug for many individuals with diabetes. Now, she is turning her attention to a similar trend of soaring prices among new diabetes and obesity medications.

A blood test like this would need to go through "extensive clinical trials" with thousands of patients and regulatory review, Dr. Michael Cecchini, co-director of the colorectal program at the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers at the Yale Cancer Center who was not involved in the research, told Live Science.

The rising incidence of cancer in young adults is of concern, leading clinicians to advise earlier and more frequent screenings particularly for those who have a family history of cancer. Dr. Veda Giri, MD, one of the leaders of the Yale Cancer Center's Early Onset Cancer program comments on the increase in cancer diagnosis in adults under 50. A study published in 2023 in BMJ Oncology found that rates across the globe have dramatically increased in people under the age of 50 over the past couple decades. There were 3.26 million early onset cancer cases in 2019, an increase of 79.1 percent since 1990.

F. Perry Wilson, MD, associate professor of medicine (nephrology), discusses potential predictors of Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis, among other topics.

Most of us know that regular physical activity can strengthen muscles, burn fat, and lower our risk of heart disease. But many advantages of exercise go beyond physical fitness and cardiovascular health, according to Yale School of Medicine experts.

The power of mentorship is clear when you first meet Sarah Yip, PhD, and Sarah Lichenstein, PhD, and hear how their complementary interests and collaborative work have grown and thrived.