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A new Yale study is the first to describe the short- and longer-term risk of hospital readmission for older persons who have had major surgery.
- February 19, 2024Source: CNN
How beneficial olive oil is to your health depends on how the product is harvested, processed, stored and used — in farms or mills, grocery stores and your own home. YSPH Assistant Professor Tassos Kyriakides, an olive oil expert, explains.
- January 17, 2024Source: CT Public
Olive oil is a thing of beauty—and essential in so much of our cooking. Olive oil sommelier Tassos Kyriakides, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health, teaches us how to better appreciate olive oil – both for its flavor and its health and ecological benefits.
- December 05, 2023
Co-hosted by the Yale School of Public Health, the fifth annual International Yale Symposium on Olive Oil and Health is taking place from December 10-13 at Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal.
- October 27, 2023
The National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded nearly $7 million to MPIs Tami Sullivan, PhD (Psychiatry and Public Health); E. Jennifer Edelman, MD, MHS (Internal Medicine and Public Health); and Dawn Johnson, PhD (University of Akron Department of Psychology) to study medication for opioid use disorder treatment retention among women who experience intimate partner violence.
- August 07, 2023
The phase III trial results hold the potential to transform supportive care for ovarian cancer survivors by offering a new approach to managing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
- July 27, 2023Source: WebMD
New research out of Harvard University showed that people who consume more than half a tablespoon of olive oil a day had a 28% lower risk of dying from dementia than folks who rarely eat it.
- April 10, 2023Source: NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Website
Dr. Fan Li, an assistant professor of biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, has received approval of a 3-year funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to develop causal inference methods for stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials—a design that has been increasingly adopted in pragmatic trials.
- February 22, 2023
Staff Spotlight on Jesse Reynolds, a biostatistician at the Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) who oversees Yale University's ClinicalTrials.gov team. He's also part of REDCap data collection team that was recently presented the Lorimer Award for Distinguished Service by the university.
- January 10, 2023
Having never visited the U.S., Yaqing Xu was initially hesitant about entering the master’s degree program in the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics. But positive support from her professors and fellow students, along with exciting course material and research opportunities, confirmed she made the right choice. Xu stayed on at Yale to take advantage of the department’s stellar PhD program, adding to the department’s many stories of outstanding student success.