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Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost. Analysis of Kenya Study Shows Simultaneously Confronting HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Waterborne Illness Improves Health. A volunteer in 2008 shows people from the Lurambi District in Western Kenya how to use incecticide-treated bednets to prevent the spread of malaria during the Integrated Prevention Demonstration Campaign […]
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Lecture or listen: When patients waver on meds According to a new analysis of hundreds of recorded office visits, doctors and nurse practitioners typically issued orders and asked closed or leading questions when talking to their HIV-positive patients about adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Attempts at problem-solving with patients who had lapsed occurred in less than […]
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Basketball, with perspective Lippert set to score 1,000th point, but focuses on volunteering too Crimson forward Victoria Lippert, who left sunny San Diego three years ago to take up residence in chilly Cambridge, “hasn’t looked back since.” Now she’s set to surpass the 1,000-point mark this spring./ Amanda Swinhart/Harvard Staff Photographer In a refreshing twist, […]
Making the worms turn Biophysicist and his lab pioneer ways to track, influence roundworm nervous systems Aravinthan Samuel and researchers in his lab set to work designing equipment that could measure nerve activity in living, wiggling worms. They first succeeded three or four years ago, becoming the first to record neural activity in freely moving […]
As strong as an insect’s shell Wyss research takes cue from nature to create tough, low-cost material Postdoctoral fellow Javier Fernandez (right) and Don Ingber, director at the Wyss Institute, have created a new material made from discarded shrimp shells and proteins derived from silk called “shrilk.” It is thin, clear, flexible, and hard as […]
Blood test for depression? Found to accurately distinguish depressed patients from healthy controls “Traditionally, diagnosis of major depression and other mental disorders has been made based on patients’ reported symptoms, but the accuracy of that process varies a great deal, often depending on the experience and resources of the clinician conducting the assessment,” says George […]
Triumphs against smallpox, polio, AIDS Harvard researchers led pivotal breakthroughs against many diseases In 1926, Harvard Medical School faculty members George Minot (pictured) and William Murphy tackled pernicious anemia, which often killed sufferers within three years. Their study showed that a diet heavy in raw liver improved the sufferers’ condition. Later studies isolated the active […]
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Decoding keys to a healthy life 74 years young, Harvard study continues to yield a treasure trove of data “We used to think that if you had relatives who lived to a ripe old age, that was the best predictor” of a long life, said Robert Waldinger, director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, […]
High triglyceride levels found to independently predict stroke risk in older women. A Stronger Link than Cholesterol Levels to Ischemic Stroke. February 2, 2012— (BRONX, NY) — In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine have found that high levels […]
Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging at Stanford University The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research has awarded a $5 million grant to Stanford University to launch a new center on the Biology of Aging. This center is the fourth in the country to be funded by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research whose goal […]
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