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Stiffer air pollution regulations crucial, HSPH's Schwartz tells congressional committee
Air pollution expert Joel Schwartz told a Congressional subcommittee on July 26, 2011, that new EPA regulations aimed at reducing particulate emissions from coal-fired power plants will eliminate up to 34,000 premature deaths per year. Speaking before the…
Energy-efficient buildings can be hazardous to health
Buildings that are being weatherized and made energy-efficient and air tight can be hazardous to one’s health, according to a new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report. The report, “Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health,” prepared by a…
Emissions from traffic congestion may shorten lives
Air pollution from traffic congestion in 83 of the nation’s largest urban areas contributes to more than 2,200 premature deaths annually, costing the health system at least $18 billion, according to a study by Harvard School of Public…
The dance of the cells: A minuet or a mosh?
For immediate release: May 22, 2011 Boston, MA – The physical forces that guide how cells migrate—how they manage to get from place to place in a coordinated fashion inside the living body— are poorly understood. Scientists at…
Heat waves tied to climate change could increase urban fatalities
May 6, 2011 Scientists predict that global climate change will generate more heat waves in the decades ahead, but few studies have quantified the negative health effects of heat waves. In a new study that looked at how…
Mercury on the rise in endangered Pacific seabirds
For immediate release: April 18, 2011 Boston, MA – Using 120 years of feathers from natural history museums in the United States, Harvard University researchers have been able to track increases in the neurotoxin methylmercury in the black-footed…
Why Public Health? Peter James
April 2011 -- In our new series "Why Public Health?" we ask Harvard School of Public Health students to talk about why they chose to enter the field. Above, Peter James, a doctoral student of Environmental Health and Epidemiology, hopes to…
Risk to U.S. from Japan radiation low, expert says
March 29, 2011 -- A radiation expert at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), says that radiation leakage from the continuing nuclear disaster in Japan poses little risk to the U.S. Edward Maher, adjunct lecturer on environmental science, told AOL's DailyFinance.com on March…
Study finds no association between mercury exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease
For immediate release: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Boston, MA – Although research has shown that eating fish, which is rich in beneficial omega-3 fatty acids, is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, mixed evidence from prior studies…
In wake of Japanese earthquake, HSPH experts discuss humanitarian response, radiation risks
HSPH faculty and alumni were quick to respond with medical and relief expertise during last year’s massive earthquake in Haiti. But in the wake of the current disaster in Japan, a wealthy country with a largely intact medical…