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2013

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

Debating hospital readmissions penalties and ‘pay for performance’ January 28, 2013

A federal policy that penalizes hospitals where patients are more often rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged unfairly targets…

Growing ‘weight extremes’ among women in developing world January 25, 2013

Obese and overweight women are gaining weight rapidly in low-and middle-income countries while those who are severely undernourished are not…

Panel recommends VA take recent veterans’ health complaints seriously January 25, 2013

Combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan may be suffering from a similar set of symptoms as those dubbed “Gulf…

U.S. governors mixed on Medicaid expansion January 24, 2013

There appears to be no clear consensus among U.S. governors regarding the Medicaid expansion as called for in the Affordable…

Obesity studies generate debate on impact of weight, sugar on health January 18, 2013

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) nutrition experts, including Walter Willett, Frederick John Stare professor of nutrition and epidemiology and…

Berries may lower women’s heart attack risk January 15, 2013

A new study led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of East Anglia finds that…