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An extended-release version of buprenorphine, a treatment for opioid use disorder, can be used earlier than other medication.
- June 18, 2024
Meet Liana Pyrdol, who works as a research assistant in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study.
- May 23, 2024
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.
- May 21, 2024
Ira Leeds, MD, FACS, FASCRS, recently received an Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS) Faculty Research Award to study the relationship between housing instability and surgical outcomes using AI methods.
- April 30, 2024
The majority of the estimated $206 billion resulting from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement have not gone to address smoking or public health. Following a similar settlement of a multi-state litigation, the state of Connecticut is expecting around $600 million to address the state’s opioid overdose crisis, which resulted in 1,340 overdose deaths in 2023 alone. To avoid the experience of the Tobacco funds, Yale faculty are proactively providing recommendations on how to spend these funds.
- March 12, 2024
The newly announced election brings the number of AAP members from Yale to 53.
- March 11, 2024
Most analyses regarding the excess risk of death during the COVID-19 pandemic have relied on summary data. However, a recent study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology instead analyzed individual patient-level data based on medical records from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States.
- March 07, 2024Source: AIDSMap
Professor Keith Sigel of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, reported on a study of prostate cancer diagnoses and outcomes in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study. Using medical records and cancer registries, they compared cancer stage at diagnosis, survival after diagnosis and testing for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) prior to diagnosis in men with and without HIV.
- March 02, 2024Source: NBC News
Addiction treatment can mean anything from equine therapy to the peer-supported spiritual programming of 12-step recovery groups. Of the treatment options for opioid addiction, methadone and buprenorphine have the “strongest scientific evidence,” said Dr. David Fiellin, director of the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine.
- January 17, 2024
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer is a leading cause of death in the United States. Unfortunately for American men, prostate cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers. The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Consortium sought to give physicians and other medical professionals guidance on how to determine treatment in patients with prostate cancer.