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Women are starting to break their silence about their experiences with perimenopause, and their voices are being amplified and heard. But what’s needed is even more awareness by women and their doctors of potential symptoms and the options for managing them, YSPH Dean Megan Ranney, MD, and Dr. Karen Tang, president of Thrive Gynecology, say in this CNN Opinion piece.

Harlan Krumholz, MD, Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Yale School of Medicine, discusses the heart benefits of Wegovy.

Implementing a public health approach to the country's gun violence epidemic, with community-based programs and federal policies, is the change that is needed to address the problem, public health leaders said.

Jimmy Riley arrived at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) in September 2022 with a background in hospital administration. His time here has been transformative, broadening both his scope and depth of understanding of the complex healthcare landscape.

Awaiting justice, residents continue to grapple with serious physical and mental health issues. YSPH Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) Xi Chen discusses how low-weight births increased during the water crisis.

Private equity firms now account for as much as a quarter of practices providing behavioral health services in some states, according to a new study by researchers from Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale School of Public Health.

A new COVID-19 variant nicknamed FLiRT is threatening to cause a summer wave of COVID infections.

YSPH Associate Professor Xi Chen recently spoke with The Michigan Daily about his research paper, “Something in the pipe: The Flint water crisis and health at birth.”

A new study co-authored by Yale economist and School of Public Health Associate Professor Zack Cooper links rising prices for hospital care to lax antitrust enforcement.