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A new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health co-authored study provides further evidence linking both arsenic poisoning and the chronic respiratory disease cystic…

Problems related to surgery—mostly from surgical wound infections—are the most common reason that people wind up readmitted to the hospital, according to a new…

After helping bring international attention to an emerging polio epidemic in Syria, Annie Sparrow, MPH ’04, has been working for the past year to…

Stephen Gilman, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was appointed acting chief of the Health Behavior…

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk has been elected to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation board of trustees. Frenk has led…

More than half of people living in four of the world’s poorest countries could be newly at risk for malnutrition if bees and other…

Young girls who drink lots of sugary beverages—such as soda and other drinks with added sugar—may start their first menstrual periods earlier than girls…

Research on extremely dangerous pathogens—on “pause” in the U.S. as scientific panels consider whether or not to continue federal funding for such work—should be…

An international study of junior high- and high school-aged students who attended schools where smoking was banned were less likely to smoke than those…

Working long hours appears to drive people to drink more alcohol, according to an international study published January 13, 2015 in the journal BMJ…