
News and Features
- Dean Frenk letter to HSPH community: "Opportunities and the New School Year"
Report: Healthy, educated youths key to Nigeria's future- Cutting carbs? Replace them with proteins from plant-based foods (USA Today)
Poll: Most Americans aware of egg recall (press release)- Tobacco signs target poor neighborhoods (Boston Globe)
- Philosopher-author discusses the meaning of happiness in new book (NPR)
Harvard and Australia join together to make water a priority (press release)- Shifting protein sources away from red meats may reduce risk of heart disease in women (press release)
Study finds Mediterranean diet may lower breast cancer risk for some women (Reuters)- Missouri voters express displeasure with mandatory health insurance (Associated Press)
Cranberries, marketed as a "superfruit," often used in high-sugar products (Boston Globe)- Head lice not a reason to keep kids home from school (Time)
- Adults born in famine may have higher pre-diabetes risk (Reuters)
- Dean Julio Frenk elected to board of Commonwealth Fund (press release)
Harvard continues to aid rebuilding efforts in Haiti (Harvard Crimson)- Op-ed: Four misconceptions about the global HIV/AIDS epidemic (Reuters)
- Can cash payments encourage people to adopt healthier lifestyles? (Reuters)
HSPH alum Suraya Dalil leads Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health (HSPH News) - Report proposes new research agenda to address the pregnancy intentions of HIV-positive women (HSPH release)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital to recruit patients for gene study (Boston Globe)
- Is milk good or bad for us? The answer is unclear (LA Times)
- Movies and television linked to increased tobacco consumption in India (PLoS ONE)
- Handguns shouldn't be a household staple (Chicago Tribune)
- Walter Willett discusses the benefits of Vitamin D (CNN video)
- Sarah Fortune receives clinical scientist development award (Doris Duke Charitable Foundation)
- Emergency room visits grow in Massachusetts (Boston Globe)
- William Hsiao chosen to design new models for Vermont health care system (Times Argus)
- Early-life exposure to PCBs may reduce immune response to vaccination (Environmental Health Perspectives)
- Dean Julio Frenk joins Bill Gates, Ted Turner, others on new United Nations advocacy group formed to combat poverty (UN News)
- Massachusetts may find U.S. health care changes costly (Boston Globe)
- Frank Hu receives diabetes epidemiology award (HSPH feature)
- Cuts in Medicare may have led doctors to prescribe more chemotherapy (New York Times)
- For a long life, upbringing may trump education (Reuters)
- Employers took measures to protect employees, avoid business impact of H1N1 flu (HSPH press release)
- Moderate coffee, tea drinking may lower heart disease risk (BusinessWeek)
- Former Nobel Prize committee member shares stories about world's most famous scientific prize (HSPH lecture)
- Low, high levels of manganese may affect infant brain (Reuters)
- Nutrition panel recommends drinking fewer sugary drinks and consuming less salt (Wall Street Journal)
- Moving cancer up the global health agenda (Lancet editorial highlighting work of Global Task Force on Expanded Cancer Care and Control in the Developing World--see more on Task Force at Harvard Global Equity Initiative)
Events
- Upcoming Admissions Information Sessions
Sept. 13 and 27, 2010 - Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture
Thurs., Sept. 23, 2010
4:00 PM - Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Applications due Nov. 1, 2010
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The Nutrition Source
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