HSPH in the News Archives
2013
Rate of smokeless tobacco use among youth has leveled off
May 17, 2013
More than 5% of U.S. teens and adolescents use snuff, chewing tobacco, or dipping tobacco—and that rate has been about…
Dean Frenk discusses use of technology in education
May 16, 2013
When it comes to using new technology in education, “the trick is not to adopt, but to adapt,” Harvard School…
Regulations needed to compel safer hospital practices
May 15, 2013
Patient safety expert Lucian Leape has called for the creation of a federal agency to compel safer hospital practices. He…
Boston Marathon aftermath: Searching for resilience
May 13, 2013
Eric McNulty and Leonard Marcus of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of Harvard’s School of Public…
Two takes on the Oregon Medicaid study
May 7, 2013
In a study dubbed the “Oregon Health Insurance Experiment,” researchers compared clinical outcomes among two groups of adults in Oregon—half…
Years of preparation helped Boston respond to Marathon tragedy
May 2, 2013
The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured 264—20 critically—but every patient who was transported to…
Alumnus Donald Hopkins works to end the scourge of Guinea worm
April 26, 2013
A New York Times profile of HSPH alumnus Donald Hopkins, MPH ’70, describes his impressive efforts to battle Guinea worm…
Avoiding pesticide residue on fruits and veggies
April 26, 2013
Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), discusses the problem of…
U.S. standards for ‘safe’ limits of PFCs in drinking water appear too high for children
April 25, 2013
A new environmental toxicity study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Copenhagen has found that…
Cell phone data mining dubbed “breakthrough technology”
April 23, 2013
Caroline Buckee’s research on mining cell phone data to track how people’s movements correlate with the spread of disease has…