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Obese find telephone counseling on weight loss most effective
Coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek, November 15, 2011, with quote from HSPH's Frank Sacks
The mediatrician: Alum frames kids' media diet as public health issue
The average American youth takes in eight to ten hours of media every day, up more than two hours from just five years ago. This electronic environment is the “air kids breathe,” says HSPH Assoc. Prof. Michael Rich,…
Can neighborhoods hurt our health?
[ Spring/Summer 2011 ] A single mother living in public housing may want to feed her children healthy food, but if the nearest affordable grocery store is a crowded bus ride or expensive taxi trip away, that goal…
Happiness & health
[ Winter 2011] The biology of emotion—and what it may teach us about helping people to live longer Could a sunny outlook mean fewer colds and less heart disease? Do hope and curiosity somehow protect against hypertension, diabetes, and…
Health communication: Celebrities can influence decision not to text-message while driving
Jay A. Winsten, Frank Stanton Center Director for the Center for Health Communication, is quoted in a Boston Globe article about the influence celebrities can exert on social behavior campaigns, such as not text messaging while driving. A…
Women, welfare & human rights
[ Spring/Summer 2010 ] HSPH student examines government policies and social forces that affect the sexual and reproductive health of women. Should poor women on welfare have additional babies while receiving cash assistance? In the wake of welfare reform in…
Gay men and lesbians more likely to experience violent events and subsequent posttraumatic stress disorder
Health care providers urged to look for and address possible stress disorder among this group of adolescents and adults For immediate release: Thursday, April 15, 2010 Boston, MA – A new study from researchers at the Harvard School…
Combatting the health consequences of poverty and stress
[Fall 2009] Couple's combined expertise forges new directions for treatment On their way to school one morning, two middle-school boys skirted a crime scene where a high-schooler lay dead, shot just a few minutes earlier while waiting at…
Navigating health on the information superhighway
[Fall 2009] Researcher removes roadblocks for people with limited income and literacy With debate over unequal access to health care raging in the U.S., one place where the racial and economic divide in health is greatest is getting…
Binge drinking
[Winter 2009] Harvard College Alcohol Study calls for changes at U.S. Schools Fed up with their inability to deter underage students from binge drinking on campus, 120 U.S. college presidents proposed this past summer to open up a…