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Are Reduced-nicotine Cigarettes Coming?
Everything you need to know about the FDA’s nicotine reduction plan.
Source: Yale Medicine
5 Aug 2022
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How Stress Hits Women’s Brains Harder — and Why Men Don’t Always Get It
Rajita Sinha, PhD, Foundations Fund Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Neuroscience, spoke to Prevention about how men and women are impacted by stress.
Source: Prevention
5 Aug 2022
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Strambler Named Associate Editor of Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy Journal
Michael Strambler, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, is associate editor of the new Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy journal.
Source: SEL Journal
1 Aug 2022
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Pietrzak, Lowe receive APA honors
Two Yale School of Public Health professors are being honored with awards by the American Psychological Association for their work in trauma psychology.
26 Jul 2022
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Yale Study: Opioid Tapering Support Using a Web-based App
Sara N. Edmond, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, is first author of a paper in Contemporary Clinical Trials that describes the development and protocols of a web-based program designed to support patients willing to consider an opioid taper.
Source: Contemporary Clinical Trials
21 Jul 2022
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Researchers blast Florida’s transgender treatment plan as ‘incorrect and scientifically unfounded’
National medical and legal researchers have issued a report condemning Florida health officials’ plan to block Medicaid coverage for gender-dysphoria treatments, saying the move lacks “any persuasive scientific or medical justification.”
Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel
15 Jul 2022
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Team of Experts Provides Critical Review of Florida Medical Report on Transgender Care
As Florida policymakers pursue state-level restrictions on transgender care, legal and medical experts from Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center and Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern, and University of Alabama at Birmingham have released a new report that identifies and refutes the many unscientific claims behind the effort.
Source: Yale Law School News
13 Jul 2022
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How positive age beliefs can support positive health outcomes with Becca Levy, PhD
AMA Chief Experience Officer Todd Unger chats with Becca R. Levy, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and a professor of psychology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, about how our beliefs about age influence health. Dr. Levy is the author of the best-selling book: "Breaking the Age Code: How Your Age Beliefs Determine How Long and Well You Live."
Source: American Medical Association
5 Jul 2022
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Scientific Misinformation and Gender Affirming Care: Tools for Providers on the Front Lines
In this commentary piece, Yale faculty and colleagues define gender affirming care and address related scientific misinformation.
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health
2 Jul 2022
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The Juul E-Cigarette Ban: Will It Make a Difference?
Yale Medicine experts review latest information on vaping.
Source: Yale Medicine
30 Jun 2022
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Jaimie Meyer, MD, MS, "Rising Stars of Infectious Diseases." Part 2 of a Five-Part Series
Calming Nerves During COVID While Caring for Women with HIV
29 Jun 2022
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Finding a Transgender-Friendly Doctor
Everyone needs a kind doctor they can trust. But it can be a challenge to find medical care that is supportive of and knowledgeable about transgender people’s health. Here’s how to find gender-affirming doctors.
Source: WebMD
28 Jun 2022
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Sex, Gender, and the Mechanisms of Disease
Despite the challenges in navigating the paradigm shift required to study the effects of sex and gender as well as the biological and social determinants of health, the future of science is to study how all these factors intersect.
24 Jun 2022
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Doctoral Internship in Clinical & Community Psychology Graduates 14; Honors Faculty
The Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical & Community Psychology honored 14 graduates at a commencement ceremony June 14 at the Greenberg Center.
21 Jun 2022
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LaPaglia to Lead APA's Society of Clinical Psychology - Division 12
Donna LaPaglia, PsyD, associate professor of psychiatry, has been elected incoming president elect 2023 for the American Psychological Association’s Society of Clinical Psychology-Division 12.
15 Jun 2022
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Yale Researcher Studies Alzheimer's Disease
Dr. Carolyn Fredericks of Yale School of Medicine talks about what is involved when volunteering for brain research on Alzheimer's disease.
13 Jun 2022
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Petersen-Crair, Hicks, Koslosky Appointed to Medical Student Education Leadership Posts
Yale Department of Psychiatry’s medical student education section announces the appointment of three new leaders.
13 Jun 2022
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Op-Ed: Denying trans youth gender-affirming care is an affront to science and medical ethics
Legislation attacking medical care for transgender youth marks a new extreme for scientific misinformation in the America. Years of study and scientific scrutiny have established safe, evidence-based guidelines for delivery of lifesaving, gender-affirming care.
Source: Los Angeles Times
13 Jun 2022
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Bold Receives Grant to Study Impact of Menthol Flavor Ban in Cigarettes and E-cigarettes
Krysten Bold, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has received an R01 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study the impact of a menthol flavor ban in cigarettes and e-cigarettes to inform tobacco policy.
8 Jun 2022
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WHRY Funds Studies on Sex Differences in Treating Gastrointestinal Cancers, Bone Health in Transgender Youth, and the Greater Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease in Women
Women’s Health Research at Yale today announced funding for three new studies.
7 Jun 2022