Christopher Golden, research associate in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and recently appointed director of the Wildlife Conservation … Continue reading “HSPH’s Christopher Golden named ‘Emerging Explorer’”
What is the total price tag for the Great Recession? Almost five years after the official end of the worst downturn since the Great … Continue reading “The hidden health costs of the Great Recession”
Neighbors of foreclosed homes may face an elevated risk of high blood pressure, according to findings by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers … Continue reading “Blood pressure may rise in neighbors of foreclosed homes”
In spite of conventional wisdom that the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish can protect against depression, a large new study from Harvard School … Continue reading “No mental health benefit from fish oil”
Dariush Mozaffarian, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), has been named dean of Tufts University’s Gerald … Continue reading “Dariush Mozaffarian named dean of Tufts Friedman School”
“There are 600,000 food items in America. Eighty percent of them have added sugar,” according to the new film Fed Up, which was screened … Continue reading “HSPH goes Hollywood with Fed Up film screening”
Aaron M. Cypess, assistant investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology & Metabolism and staff physician at Joslin Diabetes Center and assistant professor of … Continue reading “Aaron M. Cypess receives 2014 Tashjian award for excellence in endocrine research”
A newly discovered molecule may play a role in controlling both asthma-induced airway muscle thickening and tumor growth—and manipulating it may lead to new … Continue reading “New molecule links asthma, cancer”
In an interview with the blog Thought Economics, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk, together with several leading experts, reflected on the … Continue reading “Public health leaders explore future challenges”
Young people who start taking antidepressants at higher-than-average doses may be twice as likely to commit suicide, especially in the first three months of … Continue reading “High initial doses of antidepressants may double suicide risk in teens”