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Vaccination Decisions: Selfish, Selfless, or Both? Marketing to Mixed Motives
Most medical decisions appear to be autonomous events affecting only the health of individuals seeking treatment. However, in the context of public health, popular perception influences individual decisions, which in turn determine the health
Read More »Public Policy Aids in Curtailing Dangerous Habits
Dr. Sherry McKee investigates the link between smoking bans and alcohol abuse
Read More »Alumnus Profile: Jennifer Staple-Clark, B.A. ’03
As a Yale undergraduate, Jennifer Staple-Clark founded Unite for Sight, which has grown into an international organization that provides eye care and resources to hundreds of thousands
Read More »What Am I Eating? The Infiltration of Genetically Modified Foods
Most consumer products currently contain some components from genetically-modified organisms, but the health and environmental risks of these products are still unknown
Read More »Let Them Eat Cake: More To Obesity Than Just The Extra Calories
Obesity is turning out to be much more complex than overeating and lack of exercise, as new research finds genetic, hormonal, neurological, and even immunological factors that appear to relate to weight
Read More »The Economics of Self Control
Jody Sindelar has combined field studies and analysis of existing databases to study the relationship between self-control, tobacco use, and the implications of proposed tobacco taxation policies on individual behaviors
Read More »Controlling Dengue Fever: An Environmental Approach
Seeking to explain the recurrence of dengue fever in areas where its main mosquito vector has been controlled, Eliza Little has discovered that a second species that can carry the virus during inter-epidemic periods
Read More »The Bad Side of Ozone – Pursuing Ozone Abatement
Ozone is a single molecule with the same chemical composition no matter where it is found. However, while stratospheric ozone protects against ultraviolet light, ozone at lower altitudes can cause significant health problems
Read More »Possible Mechanism for Preterm Birth
A Yale Medical School lab tackles the problem of preterm birth and finds promising evidence that calcifying nanoparticles play an important role.
Read More »Smoking Cessation: A Gain-Framed Counseling Approach
Assistant psychiatry professor Benjamin Toll explores the effects of gain-frame messaging in maximizing effectiveness of smoking cessation counseling
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