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The News spoke with Yale experts about the U.S. Surgeon General’s recommendations for raising awareness about alcohol’s cancer risk. YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou comments.

Oncologists with Yale Cancer Center are praising a report released by the Office of the Surgeon General that seeks to add a warning label on alcoholic beverages showing the direct link between drinking and fatal cancers. YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou comments.

YSPH Professor Vasilis Vasiliou discusses the U.S. Surgeon General's call for warning labels on alcoholic beverages due to scientific information linking alcohol consumption to cancer.

Why does olive oil help combat climate change? How can soil affect human well-being? What does marketing have to do with public health? These were just a few of the many questions considered by almost 100 participants from 15 countries at the 6th International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health in Heraklion, Crete, Greece at the beginning of December.

The benefits of water fluoridation have become the subject of much national debate. YSPH professors Nicole Deziel and Vasilis Vasiliou provide their expert perspectives.

Is it sulfites, tannins, or another culprit? Here’s what the research says about the migraines some people get with a glass of merlot. YSPH Professor and Department Chair Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou provides his expert perspective.

Yale School of Public Health environmental toxicologist Vasilis Vasiliou calls a new artificial turf cooling system a good effort, but he has other concerns about the potential health impacts associated with fake grass.

As the world prepares for the start of the Olympic Games in Paris later this month, it is still unclear whether the city’s iconic Seine River will be clean enough for competitive swimming events. In a new video, Yale’s Jordan Peccia and Vasilis Vasiliou discuss the perennial challenge of pollution that caused officials to ban swimming in the river more than a century ago.

Dr. Vasilis Vasiliou on Yale Cancer Answers.