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2013

HSPH researchers support petition calling for limits on added sugars in beverages February 14, 2013

The amount of added sugars in soda and other sweetened beverages needs to be regulated, according to a Washington, D.C.-based…

Cutting costs, buoying health care February 14, 2013

Coverage of HSPH's Voices From the Field talk with Donald Berwick, February 14, 2013, Harvard Gazette

Study of Oregon health insurance experiment wins award February 7, 2013

A study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers that used for the first time a randomized, controlled study design…

Infectious disease expert works to ban landmines, fight tuberculosis and AIDS February 6, 2013

Since the 1980s, infectious disease specialist Anne Goldfeld has worked to ban landmines, treat victims of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in…

Worldwide, women’s inequality February 5, 2013

Coverage of HSPH Forum featuring Helen Clark Forum, February 5, 2013, Harvard Gazette

Prolonged TV viewing linked to lower sperm count February 4, 2013

Coverage on BBC, February 4, 2013, featuring HSPH researcher Audrey Gaskins

HSPH’s Joseph Brain ends 40-year stretch teaching Harvard undergrad public health course January 31, 2013

Joseph Brain, Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard School of Public Health, launched the Harvard…

Carotenoids may delay or prevent onset of Lou Gehrig’s disease January 31, 2013

Carotenoids—the substances that give many vegetables and fruits their vivid red, orange, and yellow colors and are also found in…

As work on lethal bird flu research resumes, debate continues January 31, 2013

Last week, an international group of scientists announced their intention to resume research on the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu…

Inefficient health care systems fuel inflation, inequality January 29, 2013

Coverage of speech by HSPH Dean Julio Frenk, January 29, 2013, South China Morning Post