The rush to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa is not only about saving lives, it’s also about keeping the epidemic from … Continue reading “Ebola epidemic could lead to broader humanitarian crisis”
Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, has become a leading … Continue reading “A critical voice on biosafety”
Canada—which adopted universal health care about 50 years ago—can learn from U.S. efforts at health reform, according to a September 3, 2014 Globe and … Continue reading “U.S. health reform can be ‘source of inspiration’ for Canadians”
The amount of methylmercury, a neurotoxin, in the earth’s atmosphere has quadrupled since the days before industrialization, and its toxic effects are changing the … Continue reading “Mercury exposure may cause birds to change their tune”
Two new studies are weighing in on the ongoing debate about whether the best diet is low-fat or low-carbohydrate, but Harvard School of Public … Continue reading “Low-fat or low-carb? It may not matter”
Ebola spread to Sierra Leone via fourteen women who attended a funeral in Guinea and carried the virus back to Sierra Leone, researchers at … Continue reading “Outbreak of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone traced to funeral”
Women who consume instant noodles frequently were found to be more likely to have metabolic syndrome—the group of risk factors, including obesity and high … Continue reading “Instant noodle consumption linked to heart risk in women”
In the years since a 2011 study found that early treatment with antiretroviral drugs could reduce HIV transmission between couples in which one partner … Continue reading “HIV/AIDS: Promising prevention method”
Harvard-affiliated experts in humanitarian disaster response recently met with officials from African countries affected by the current Ebola outbreak to discuss strategies for easing … Continue reading “Ebola outbreak: African officials join Harvard experts to strategize”
Excessive salt consumption may be behind one in 10 deaths from heart disease and stroke worldwide — one in five for people younger than … Continue reading “High-sodium diets linked to 1.65 million annual deaths worldwide”