Eating nuts may lengthen lives
Eating a small handful of unsalted nuts seven or more times a week may reduce risk of death by 20%, according to a new … Continue reading “Eating nuts may lengthen lives”
Eating a small handful of unsalted nuts seven or more times a week may reduce risk of death by 20%, according to a new … Continue reading “Eating nuts may lengthen lives”
Workers at Piramal Life Sciences—a Mumbai, India-based company that develops pharmaceuticals and medical devices—are among the first at a corporation to sign up for … Continue reading “HSPH edX courses help train workers in India”
The most significant triumph in global health in the past decade has been the steep decline in maternal and infant mortality, said [[Jennifer Leaning]] … Continue reading “Decline in maternal, infant mortality a major global health achievement”
David Hunter, Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention and Dean for Academic Affairs at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), recently added to … Continue reading “Direct-to-consumer genetic testing not ready for prime time”
In a new paper, Eric Rubin, professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues describe how tuberculosis (TB) … Continue reading “TB survival mechanism explained”
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk discussed changes in the field of public health since the School’s founding a century ago in … Continue reading “A century of changes in public health”
Caroline Buckee, assistant professor of epidemiology and associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), was … Continue reading “Buckee named a top 100 global thinker by Foreign Policy”
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major infectious disease global threat, with 8.7 million new cases and 1.4 million deaths worldwide reported in 2011 alone. In … Continue reading “Tuberculosis experts address role of immune response”
A new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) program aims to help the millions of children around the world who are sexually exploited, serving … Continue reading “Stemming child exploitation”
Women in India who are forced into prostitution or sex trafficking are almost three times more likely to be HIV-infected than those who joined … Continue reading “Forced prostitution raises risk of HIV/AIDS infection”