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Sleep problems and poverty: how socioeconomics impact our sleep and health
Coverage in Huffington Post featuring HSPH's Cassandra Okechukwu, September 4, 2012
Does just feeling fat make you gain weight?
Coverage in U.S. News & World Report, August 16, 2012, featuring HSPH's S. Bryn Austin
Expanding Medicaid to low-income adults leads to improved health, fewer deaths
As States Consider Expansion Following Supreme Court Ruling on Health Reform, Study Shows Significant Benefits of Covering More People For immediate release: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Boston, MA - A new study from Harvard School of Public Health…
Stressful childhood events linked to elevated inflammation in adolescence
Children who experienced traumatic events such as abuse or parental separation before age 8 are more likely to show elevated levels of inflammation at ages 10 and 15, according to a new study led by Harvard School of…
Education levels linked to hypertension in African Americans
Education trumps genetics as a predictor of high blood pressure in African Americans, according to a new study led by a Harvard School of Public Health researcher. The findings dispel the widespread belief that West African ancestry is…
Benefits of early education program for at-risk kids don’t extend to siblings
A child development program shown to improve IQ and behavior among children born with a low birth weight did not help their younger siblings, according to a study led by Harvard School of Public Health’s [[Marie McCormick]], Sumner…
Accentuating the positive
[ Spring/Summer 2012 ] It’s an all too common scene: A girl looks at a photo in a fashion magazine and compares the model’s thin, airbrushed figure to her own rounder shape. She tells her friend, “I am…
Hispanics born abroad face lower stroke risk than US-born Hispanics and whites
A new study by HSPH researchers has found that Hispanics born outside of the United States are less likely to have a stroke than U.S.-born Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites. HSPH doctoral student J. Robin Moon and her colleagues…
Youth angry with the global economic crisis insist on change
The world’s young people are frustrated and angry with the current global economic crisis and demand change, says David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). “Whether it’s the…
Social networks and volunteering linked with good health worldwide
February 28, 2012 Much research has indicated that strong social networks and volunteering are linked with good health. But most of that research was done in western or developed countries. Now, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers…
