Featured series 
Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Health
After decades of improvement, cardiovascular health rates on worrying path
CDC report trend is stagnating — and for middle-aged, even declining
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New CDC guidelines a ‘corrective’ for opioid prescriptions, specialist says
The CDC updates its 2016 opioid prescribing guidelines, to emphasize flexibility over rigid practices and laws whose aim is to reduce addiction.
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What’s next for the CDC?
Five former CDC directors convened for a panel about the future of the agency.
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The present and future of COVID variants
Conversations with Harvard experts shed light on the rise of delta, an unwelcome twist in transmission, the power of vaccination, and more.
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Campus & Community
Harvard president reflects on past year, and looks ahead
Harvard President Larry Bacow reflects on how the Harvard community has met the challenges posed by COVID-19, and to look ahead how the University is tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems.
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Immunologist says technology can keep up with COVID variants
Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.
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Nation & World
Rochelle Walensky to run CDC
Rochelle Walensky, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital, was named the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by President-elect Biden.
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A COVID-19 battle with many fronts
The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.
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COVID-19 targets communities of color
Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.
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Harvard to help track the virus
Soon hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, and taking part in efforts to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus.
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Nation & World
Wither the handshake?
Long-held habits have disappeared overnight as social distancing has become the new normal in the age of the novel coronavirus. What about the handshake?
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Campus & Community
University offers coronavirus resources and help guides
University offers coronavirus resources and help guides for students, professors, and staff.
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Campus & Community
Harvard details coronavirus outbreak plans
Harvard details plans to ensure safety, health, and productivity of community amid coronavirus outbreak.
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Health
A nation nearer to the grave
Against a backdrop of recent jumps in drug overdose deaths and suicide, McLean Hospital psychologist R. Kathryn McHugh discusses the opioid crisis and increasing suicide deaths with the Gazette.
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Health
Rising threat: Death by fentanyl
Sarah Wakeman, an addiction specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the role of fentanyl in the country’s opioid crisis.
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Toxic inequality
According to Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson’s theory of “ecology of toxic inequality,” higher lead levels in the blood are often directly tied to racial and ethnic segregation.
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Health
Added caution on pregnancy and alcohol
The Gazette spoke with Michael Charness, chief of staff for the Harvard-affiliated VA Boston Healthcare System, about the CDC’s recommendations to sexually active woman of childbearing age: either use birth control or don’t drink.
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Positive sign in America’s food fight
Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the principal investigator of the diabetes component of the landmark Nurses’ Health Study, responded to the latest Center for Disease Control and Prevention findings in an interview with the Gazette.
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Campus & Community
Ebola outbreak: A system that failed
During an Ed Portal discussion, Harvard Professor Ashish Jha examined where the global health system failed when Ebola began to spread.
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Health
On top of the flu
A team led by Harvard statistician Samuel Kou has devised a new system for tracking flu outbreaks in real time.
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An opening for measles
In the wake of the recent measles outbreak, a panel of experts convened at Harvard Law School to discuss the ethical, legal, and public health issues around vaccination.
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Health
Sick with measles, again
Dyann Wirth, chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, discusses what’s behind the resurgence of measles in the United States.
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Health
The threat from superbugs
Hospital stewardship programs, community education, and legal changes to allow pharmaceutical companies to profit longer from new antibiotics are among reforms that experts suggest to fight drug-resistant bacteria.
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Arts & Culture
Oh, the horror!
What’s behind the fascination with horror? A number of Harvard experts recently offered their insight into the genre’s powerful lure.
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Health
Little improvement seen in antibiotic abuse
Harvard research shows that while only 10 percent of adults with sore throat have strep, the only common cause of sore throat requiring antibiotics, the national antibiotic prescribing rate for adults with sore throat has remained at 60 percent.
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When bacteria fight back
After the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on the threat from drug-resistant bacteria, David Hooper, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an authority on the subject, discussed the issues during a question-and-answer session.
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40% prevention rate for colorectal cancers
A Harvard study has found that 40 percent of all colorectal cancers might be prevented if people underwent regular colonoscopy screenings. The new research also supports existing guidelines that recommend that people with an average risk of colorectal cancer should have a colonoscopy every 10 years.
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Obesity? Diabetes? We’ve been set up
The twin epidemics of obesity and its cousin, diabetes, have been the target of numerous studies at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals and institutions. Harvard researchers have produced a dizzying array of findings on the often related problems.
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Nicotine letdown
Nicotine replacement therapies did not improve smokers’ chances of long-term cessation in a study by researchers at Harvard and UMass.
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Effective treatment of painkiller addiction
Individuals addicted to prescription painkillers are more likely to succeed in treatment with the aid of the medication buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone), report McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers.
