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Tag: Harvard School of Public Health
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Media reporting HSPH professor to be named head of federal Medicare, Medicaid programs
Major media outlets are this weekend reporting that President Barack Obama has selected Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professor Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, to head the federal government’s…
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Post-traumatic stress
Terry Keane, a longtime PTSD researcher and associate chief of staff for research and development at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, says researchers in recent years have learned much about post-traumatic stress, including that it is both more prevalent and more treatable than previously supposed.
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60 minutes of exercise per day needed for middle-aged women to maintain weight
If a middle-aged or older woman with a normal body mass index wants to maintain her weight over an extended period, she must engage in the equivalent of 60 minutes…
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Replacing those saturated fats
In a new study, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health find that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated ones is likely to help reduce the risk of heart disease.
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Polyunstaturated fats may cut risk of heart disease
Although for nearly 60 years people have been urged to decrease their consumption of saturated fats to prevent heart disease, there has been surprisingly little scientific evidence that doing so actually decreases the risk of coronary heart disease events
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Beyond boundaries
As a global university, Harvard not only attracts students and faculty from around the world, it sends them out, to teach and work, extending Harvard’s influence far beyond its local boundaries.
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Around the Schools: Harvard School of Public Health
A new firearms research database launched by the Harvard School of Public Health makes scholarly articles about the topic more accessible to reporters, law enforcement agents, public health officials, policymakers, and the public.
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Buddhism on the dinner plate
New book by a Harvard nutritionist and renowned monk encourages the Buddhist sense of mindfulness in how people eat.
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Epstein-Barr Virus implicated as a cause of MS
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that the risk of multiple…
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War-related stress associated with increased risk of asthma
The trauma experienced during war may increase the risk of developing asthma, according to the results of a new study by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard…
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Right this way! See it! Taste it!
Former FDA commissioner David Kessler says overeating has to be attacked the same way that tobacco was in the past, by making it socially unacceptable.
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Infant mortality down, ailments persist
José Cordero, dean of the University of Puerto Rico’s School of Public Health, said that the progress made in the 20th century on infant mortality has revealed new health concerns stemming from that success: how to reduce birth defects and provide care for the greater number of children who are surviving them.
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‘Building back, better’
Haitians face a long road for post-earthquake recovery. Some Harvard faculty members will walk it with them.
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Researcher receives grant to study Haiti-American emergency preparedness
Researcher Linda Marc has received a grant from the Harvard School of Public Health to examine public health and emergency preparedness in Haitian-Americans. Marc is based at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard-affiliated health system.
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Working the night shift
Volunteers assist with a variety of medical skills, from nursing to orthopedics to medical equipment repair, playing a critical role in the response to the Haitian earthquake.
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Night shift, Port-au-Prince
A series of tents now function as Port-au-Prince’s primary hospital, as post-earthquake medical volunteers make ends meet during the night shift.
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The Haitian partnership
Speakers, including Paul Farmer, discuss how Harvard offshoots can collaborate with Haitians to try to build some stability in the earthquake-battered nation.
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Drinking Milk While Pregnant May Lower Kids’ MS Risk
Children born to mothers who drink lots of milk and have a high dietary intake of vitamin D during pregnancy have a much lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis later in life, researchers say…
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Memories are made of this
In a lecture, neuroscientist Eric Kandel ’52 said that researchers have learned that short-term memory, the ability to recall things for minutes or hours, is fundamentally different from long-term memory, which holds information for weeks, months, even a lifetime.
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Report from Haiti
Nearly a month after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, paramedic Anthony Croese looked into the crowd outside a destroyed orphanage near Port-au-Prince and spotted an emaciated baby cradled in his father’s arms.
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Hospital rises in the grass
Sandwiched between mountains and a large lake, a field hospital has sprung up amid the thorny trees and dried grass at Fond Parisien, near the border with the Dominican Republic. The site has become an oasis of medical care and hope in this still-reeling nation, where many thousands died and many more have been injured.
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A molecule that destroys normal metabolism is found
Overeating in mice triggers a molecule once considered to be only involved in detecting and fighting viruses to also destroy normal metabolism, leading to insulin resistance and setting the stage…
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Medical workers gain momentum
Harvard-affiliated doctors report on carnage, rescue operations in quake-ravaged Haiti, as medical teams gain traction.
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Harvard responds to Haiti crisis
A catastrophic earthquake in Haiti Tuesday (Jan. 12) has prompted a rapid-fire response of broad-based medical and humanitarian assistance from Harvard and its affiliates.
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FXB Center’s new director
Jennifer Leaning, a public health expert with extensive field experience in human rights crises, has been named director of the University’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).
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A snapshot of Harvard’s emission reductions
In 2007, Harvard University pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, inclusive of growth, 30 percent by 2016, with 2006 as the baseline year. University-wide, GHG reductions are around 5 percent so far, including growth. The reductions are due to changes in Harvard’s energy supply and to activities and projects at Schools and units.
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Harvard School of Public Health predoctoral grant available
Predoctoral training slots are available for the spring 2010 term on the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) training grant “Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Biodefense.” HSPH students from all departments are encouraged to apply.
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HSPH honors The New York Times
The Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) Center for Health Communication honored The New York Times at a luncheon event at the Harvard Club of New York City on Dec. 4 for “distinguished journalism in public health.”
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Want to live well?
Harvard faculty members from a range of fields give tips on how to live healthy.
