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While 46 states ban texting when driving and police are getting more clever in ways to try to stop drivers from using the internet when behind the wheel, safety experts agree that this form of distracted driving is…
Zika, Ebola offer lessons for managing future pandemics
How can lessons from the Zika and Ebola outbreaks prepare the world for the next pandemic? That was the question discussed by experts during a webcast hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute on August 22, 2016. Ashish…
Partnering with industry to turn discoveries into drugs
Treatment and prevention strategies for fighting infectious diseases are likely to come from partnerships between scientists and industry, according to Eric Rubin, the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
Decline in cigarette smoking accelerated during Obama administration
The rate of cigarette smoking among U.S. adults has declined substantially during the presidency of Barack Obama, according an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Author Michael Fiore, MPH '85, writes that since 2009, smoking…
'Jammed' cancer cells may explain some tumors’ spread
Biologists and physicists are becoming increasingly convinced that clusters of tumor cells that can move through the body like a phalanx may be responsible for some of the deadliest metastatic cancers. An August 16, 2016 article in Quanta…
Among youth born with HIV, those recently exposed to violence may have poorer clinical outcomes
Exposure to community violence may put the health of youth born with HIV infection at risk, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers. They found that children and youth with…
China facing epidemic of heart disease, stroke
Cardiovascular problems propelled by increases in high blood pressure and obesity For immediate release: August 15, 2016 Boston, MA – A 20-year rise in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in China appears to have been spurred largely by increases in…
Fusobacteria use a special sugar-binding protein to bind to colon tumors
For immediate release: August 10, 20116 Boston, MA — Some bacteria, called fusobacteria, commonly found in the mouth, use a sugar-binding protein to stick to developing colorectal polyps and cancers, according to a new study by researchers from…
Poll: Most in U.S. OK with late-term abortions if Zika harms fetus
Most Americans say they’d drop their aversion to late-term abortions in cases where the Zika virus has likely harmed a developing fetus, according to a new poll from STAT and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Fifty-nine…
Zika and the Rio Olympics
One expert explains why the threat of Zika at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics is actually quite low.
