“Stress wears the body down,” HSPH Prof. Jack P. Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard,…

A vast majority of U.S. adults support reducing nicotine in cigarettes to below nonaddictive levels if it means fewer children and…

Eating more slowly and relishing each bite could help people eat less or eat healthier, according to Lilian Cheung, lecturer…

A new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers suggests certain changes to mental health systems in…

Collaborators from 30 scientific organizations worldwide, led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Harvard School of Public…

People with higher-than-average levels of omega-3 fatty acids in their blood may be roughly 30 percent less likely than those…

Carbohydrates, a nutritional energy source found in many foods, are an important part of a healthy diet—as long as you…

The field of comparative effectiveness research, which aims to determine the most effective medical treatments, has drawn criticism from those…

A new study co-authored by HSPH’s Marc Lipsitch links the four most recent influenza pandemics (1918, 1957, 1968, and 2009)…

A new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers and their colleagues finds that the death of a loved…