From the Dean: To my successor
[ Spring 2008 ] As Barry R. Bloom prepares to step down, he offers some thoughts for the next dean of the Harvard School of Public … Continue reading “From the Dean: To my successor”
[ Spring 2008 ] As Barry R. Bloom prepares to step down, he offers some thoughts for the next dean of the Harvard School of Public … Continue reading “From the Dean: To my successor”
[ Spring 2008 ] More people die using a firearm than all other means combined, including suffocation (e.g., hanging or drowning), poisoning (e.g., drug overdoses), leaping … Continue reading “Guns and suicide: Means matter”
Mapping the Overlap As these maps show, the correlation between guns and suicide is strong but inexact, since both are influenced by poverty, population density, … Continue reading “Gun prevalence and suicide rank by state”
[ Spring 2008 ] In the United States, suicides outnumber homicides almost two to one. Perhaps the real tragedy behind suicide deaths—about 30,000 a year, one … Continue reading “Guns and suicide: A fatal link”
Is it possible to predict survival for patients with oligodendroglioma from aberrations in their DNA? According to a 2006 study by Rebecca Betensky and … Continue reading “Predicting survival for brain cancer patients”
To help physicians predict the likelihood that a patient’s multiple sclerosis will advance significantly in the near term, Rebecca Betensky and her collaborators … Continue reading “Projecting MS progression”
[ Spring 2008 ] A math whiz takes on brain cancer, MS, and Alzheimer’s disease. Rebecca Betensky’s dad worked as a statistician for a global oil … Continue reading “The oddsmaker”
[ Spring 2008 ] New “dry-spray” technology passes muster in guinea pigs Aiming to make immunization safer and more cost-effective for the developing world, Harvard School … Continue reading “Hope for a needle-free TB vaccine”
[ Spring 2008 ] Michael Von Clemm traveling fellows experience public health in the real world There’s a world of difference between studying public health and … Continue reading “You have to be there”
[ Spring 2008 ] Florida’s First Surgeon General Takes her Message on the Road In 2007, more than a fifth of Florida’s approximately 18 million residents … Continue reading “Community health champion”