A study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers that used for the first time a randomized, controlled study design to answer questions about … Continue reading “Study of Oregon health insurance experiment wins award”
Since the 1980s, infectious disease specialist Anne Goldfeld has worked to ban landmines, treat victims of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia and Ethiopia, and … Continue reading “Infectious disease expert works to ban landmines, fight tuberculosis and AIDS”
Coverage of HSPH Forum featuring Helen Clark Forum, February 5, 2013, Harvard Gazette
Coverage on BBC, February 4, 2013, featuring HSPH researcher Audrey Gaskins
Joseph Brain, Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology at Harvard School of Public Health, launched the Harvard undergraduate course “The Human … Continue reading “HSPH’s Joseph Brain ends 40-year stretch teaching Harvard undergrad public health course”
Carotenoids—the substances that give many vegetables and fruits their vivid red, orange, and yellow colors and are also found in many dark green vegetables—may … Continue reading “Carotenoids may delay or prevent onset of Lou Gehrig’s disease”
Last week, an international group of scientists announced their intention to resume research on the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu virus after a year’s … Continue reading “As work on lethal bird flu research resumes, debate continues”
Coverage of speech by HSPH Dean Julio Frenk, January 29, 2013, South China Morning Post
A federal policy that penalizes hospitals where patients are more often rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged unfairly targets hospitals that care for … Continue reading “Debating hospital readmissions penalties and ‘pay for performance’”
Obese and overweight women are gaining weight rapidly in low-and middle-income countries while those who are severely undernourished are not experiencing similar weight gains, … Continue reading “Growing ‘weight extremes’ among women in developing world”