People with type 2 diabetes may have a lower risk for being diagnosed with the serious neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known … Continue reading “Type 2 diabetes may protect against ALS”
Teenagers who are significantly overweight appear to have twice the risk of developing colorectal cancer in middle-age compared with teens of normal weight, according … Continue reading “Overweight teens may have increased risk for colorectal cancer”
A new study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that women with epilepsy have a more than 10-fold higher risk … Continue reading “Pregnant women with epilepsy at greater risk of death during childbirth”
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health student Anvita Kulkarni, SM ’16, is one of 16 graduate students named to this year’s class of … Continue reading “Anvita Kulkarni, SM ’16, named Schweitzer Fellow”
More than a hundred students and humanitarian relief professionals spent April 24-26, 2015 learning how to rapidly respond to a refugee crisis while being … Continue reading “Students train for disaster relief work”
Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke on the public radio program Science … Continue reading “Identifying individuals by their microbial ‘companions’”
With automobile manufacturers racing to bring self-driving vehicles to the marketplace, policy makers need to get up to speed and start examining the issues … Continue reading “Robotic driving systems need regulation”
Health systems can better handle future infectious disease outbreaks such as Ebola by being more resilient and better prepared to respond to severe global … Continue reading “Resilient health systems key for managing disease outbreaks”
Single mothers may be more likely to have health problems as they reach older age than women who are married, according to a new … Continue reading “Single mothers may face poorer health”
Doctors responding to an American College of Emergency Physicians poll released May 4, 2015 report more patients are seeking emergency room treatment since the … Continue reading “Emergency room doctors busy, despite ACA”