For immediate release: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 As part of the ongoing poll series, Debating Health: Election 2008, the Harvard Public Opinion Research Program at … Continue reading “Four in ten voters don’t see either Obama’s or McCain’s health care plan as better for them”
For immediate release: Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 Boston, MA – Dr. Julio Frenk, who will become Dean of Harvard School of Public Health in … Continue reading “Incoming HSPH Dean Julio Frenk receives Clinton Global Citizen award”
For immediate release: Thursday, September 18, 2008 Boston, MA — Scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have identified in mice a … Continue reading “A new class of hormone from healthy fat cells benefits body metabolism, HSPH researchers find in mice”
For immediate release: September 10, 2008 BOSTON, MA — A professorship and scholarship program to honor Dr. Bernard Lown’s career of advancing public health … Continue reading “New scholarship program and professorship to honor Dr. Bernard Lown”
For immediate release: September 7, 2008 Boston, MA – Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and their collaborators at Tufts University … Continue reading “Genetic variants associated with vitamin B12”
For immediate release: September 3, 2008 Boston, MA – In an effort to create safer environments for potentially suicidal individuals, researchers at the Harvard … Continue reading “Physicians urged to broaden suicide prevention by addressing access to guns and other lethal means when focusing on patient’s mental health”
For immediate release: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Boston, MA — Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel Prize winner in 1954 and HSPH Professor Emeritus, passed away … Continue reading “Thomas H. Weller, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus, dies”
For immediate release: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Boston, MA — The cost-effectiveness of vaccination in the United States against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted … Continue reading “Cervical cancer prevention in U.S. should focus on vaccinating adolescent girls and revising screening policies”
For immediate release: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Boston, MA — India is home to the third-largest number of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases in the world … Continue reading “Women in India abused by husbands at far greater risk for HIV infection”
For immediate release: Friday, August 8, 2008 Boston, MA — Barry R. Bloom, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, today expressed “deep … Continue reading “Statement of concern on detention of Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei by Iranian authorities”