For immediate release: July 7, 2020 Boston, MA—Targeted taxes on sweetened beverages and policies that strengthen nutritional standards for meals and beverages at schools … Continue reading “Targeted taxes and school lunch policies benefit low-income populations”
For immediate release: June 26, 2020 Boston, MA – Strengthening U.S. air quality standards for fine particulate pollution to be in compliance with current … Continue reading “More evidence of causal link between air pollution and early death”
For immediate release: June 15, 2020 Boston, MA – Greater adherence to a variety of healthy eating patterns was associated with a lower risk of … Continue reading “Following a variety of healthy eating patterns associated with lower heart disease risk”
For immediate release: June 1, 2020 Boston, MA – JUUL and similar pod-based e-cigarettes have been popular with teenagers and young adults since they … Continue reading “Pod-based e-cigarettes may foster greater nicotine dependence than other devices”
For immediate release: May 19, 2020 Boston, MA – Workplace transmission of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 likely played a substantial role in the local spread … Continue reading “COVID-19 transmission among workers considerable during early outbreaks”
For immediate release: May 14, 2020 Boston, MA – A newly identified “metabolic signature” can evaluate an individual’s adherence and metabolic response to the Mediterranean … Continue reading “Newly identified ‘metabolic signature’ can determine adherence to Mediterranean diet, help predict CVD risk”
For immediate release: May 6, 2020 Boston, MA – People who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die … Continue reading “Regularly attending religious services associated with lower risk of deaths of despair”
Harvard Chan School-Human Vaccines Project collaboration will use artificial intelligence and causal inference to accelerate drug and vaccine development For immediate release: April 14, … Continue reading “Human Immunomics Initiative will decode immune system, speed new vaccines”
For immediate release: April 13, 2020 Boston, MA – Disrupting the production of a class of lipids known as sphingolipids in neurons improved symptoms … Continue reading “Study of lipid metabolism in neurons may offer therapeutic possibilities for neurodegenerative diseases”
For immediate release: April 8, 2020 Boston, MA – A new survey from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will enable researchers to … Continue reading “New web survey aims to understand prevalence of COVID-19 symptoms, association with testing, social distancing behavior”
