Public health history course holds lessons for today
A new course at Harvard Chan School focuses on the history of public health, highlighting longstanding issues such as vaccine hesitancy, how life expectancy has been measured and used, tensions in the relationship between the fields of public…
Dangers of head injuries in sports have long been known, say experts
Although some researchers contend that the potential health dangers of sports-related head trauma have not yet been fully proven by science, the risks players face have in fact been known and studied for more than a century, according…