Two Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professors — Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, and Walter Willett, chair, Department of … Continue reading “Nutrition news: Widely studied Mediterranean diet linked to good health”
Foods are not created equal when it comes to what foods are likely to pack on pounds over time, Harvard School of Public Health … Continue reading “Nutrition news: Factors linked to long-term weight gain”
Coverage in Reuters, November 18, 2011, featuring HSPH’s Marc Lipsitch
Coverage in the Boston Globe, November 17, 2011, featuring HSPH’s John McDonough
In the seventeen years since Boston Globe health columnist Betsy Lehman died due to a medication error at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the institution … Continue reading “Patient safety expert calls on health care institutions to better manage adverse events”
Coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek, November 15, 2011, with quote from HSPH’s Frank Sacks
Catherine Mullaly, MPH ’10, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), was working in a Libyan hospital on October 20, 2011, as rebels took … Continue reading “Treating trauma patients in Libya, advancing health care in rural Nepal: HSPH alumni share experiences”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently cited ongoing research by Stephen Resch, deputy director of the Center for Health Decision Science at Harvard … Continue reading “HSPH research on benefits of treating AIDS patients cited by Secretary Clinton”
A new poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found that a majority of Americans—52 percent—prefer increased … Continue reading “Poll finds Americans pessimistic about country’s health, favor more government health spending”
In his new blog for Boston.com, “Health Stew,” John McDonough promises everything from soup to nuts on health care policy, politics, nutrition, exercise, and … Continue reading “HSPH’s John McDonough launches new Boston Globe health blog”