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Test positivity, emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and deaths due to COVID are increasing as we enter the new year. YSPH Professor Jeffrey Townsend warns, "It’s still dangerous."
- November 28, 2024Source: Hartford Courant
According to Yale, the study findings “have significant implications for public health policy and individual decision-making.”
- November 26, 2024
A one-size-fits-all approach for scheduling COVID-19 booster shots may not be the most effective, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The best time for people to get a booster actually varies based on where they live and their personal infection history.
- August 30, 2024
A retrospective cohort study by Yale Cancer Center researchers of nearly 200 patients with melanoma who died after receiving treatment with immunotherapy highlights a need to improve outcomes for patients who progress or relapse after the treatment.
- August 27, 2024Source: OncLive
Jeffrey P. Townsend, PhD, Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, co-leader, Genomics, Genetics, & Epigenetics Research Program, Yale School of Public Health, discusses analyses of driver mutations in prostate cancer driver using early neoplasm tissue samples to help characterize the molecular and genetic progress of the disease.
- June 20, 2024
“When the study launched, even with operable pancreatic cancers, 90% of patients were still relapsing and dying from their cancer eventually,” said Dr. Michael Cecchini, the first author of the study and the co-director of the colorectal program at the Center for Gastrointestinal Cancers at Smilow Cancer Hospital and YCC. “We sought to move chemotherapy up in their treatment regimen and give it before surgery to see if we could improve the outcome for our patients.”
- May 29, 2024Source: Yale News
Yale School of Public Health researchers assessed how long international travelers should be quarantined to prevent COVID-19 infection rise, finding it differed quite a bit by country.
- April 01, 2024
Yale Cancer Center researchers will present their new cancer research findings at the 2024 AACR annual meeting. A few of the presenting YCC researchers offer their key study takeaways and the significance for patients and oncologists.
- March 18, 2024
Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Smilow Cancer Hospital physicians and scientists will share new data for breakthrough and emerging cancer treatments as well as new discoveries in obesity, tobacco, evolution, and early onset cancers in early April at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting.
- February 01, 2024Source: Bay Nature
Amanita phalloides, also known as “death caps,” are the source of most mushroom fatalities worldwide and the bane of unwary foragers. Mycologist Yen-Wen (Denny) Wang, a postdoc at Yale School of Public Health, recently discovered that death caps are capable of sexually reproducing either solo or with a mate.