NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – In today’s health headlines, how soft drinks in early childhood affect your weight later in life, a newly found genetic variant that could point to new Alzheimer’s treatments and what to know about permanent contraception rates.

An associate professor at Yale School of Medicine, Yale Medicine physician and author of “How Medicine Works and When It Doesn’t, Dr. Perry Wilson, joined News 8 at noon to discuss these topics.