Featured series 
Month: March 2010
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Campus & Community
$100,000 more for Allston-Brighton
Boston Mayor Menino and Harvard President Faust award $100,000 in second round of Harvard community partnership grants to nine local organizations.
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Campus & Community
Second opinions, anywhere
Rwanda has 10 million people, but no cancer specialists. A recent collaboration between a Waltham medical information company and a Harvard University research institute aims to reduce such professional isolation – and to learn from the medical knowledge and resourcefulness of doctors in the developing world.
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Campus & Community
Jean at Harvard, with honors
Musician and producer Wyclef Jean was honored as the Harvard Foundation’s Artist of the Year at Sanders Theatre.
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Campus & Community
Helping heal survivors
For nearly 30 years, Dr. Richard F. Mollica has been helping people cope with the worst catastrophes imaginable. The longtime director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma at Massachusetts General Hospital has worked with survivors of the brutal Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, 9/11 in New York, and, most recently, the earthquake in Haiti.
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Health
Weighing the risk factors
Risk factors for childhood obesity may be evident before birth and are more likely to occur in African-American and Hispanic children than in Caucasian children. Researchers studied 1,826 mother-child pairs from pregnancy through the child’s first five years of life.
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Health
Efforts to prevent childhood obesity must begin early
Normal 0 0 1 751 4281 35 8 5257 11.1282 0 0 0 Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought — perhaps even before birth…