Articles tagged with: harvard medical school
Twelve tips for healthier eating in 2012 “If healthier eating is on your list of resolutions for 2012, look no further. The January 2012 issue of the Harvard Women’s Health Watch offers 12 ways to break old dietary habits and build new ones. For many years, nutrition research focused on the benefits and risks of single nutrients, […]
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Twelve tips for healthier eating in 2012 It’s not about individual nutrients anymore. For much of the 20th century, nutrition research focused largely on the health risks and benefits of single nutrients. The findings translated into public health messages telling us to reduce fat; limit cholesterol; increase fiber; get more calcium; take vitamins E, C, […]
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New Leadership Offerings Give HSPH Students Hands-on Practice It’s one thing to understand the public health implications of scientific evidence. It’s quite another to use that information to successfully implement real public health improvements. HSPH student Shaniece Criss participated in the group dynamics workshop The challenge of leaping from theory to practice has prompted the […]
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Study Finds Key to Drug Resistance Sophisticated “targeted” drug therapies are improving cancer care by selectively shutting down abnormal growth switches in tumor cells while avoiding toxicity to normal tissues. In some cases, though, tumors that are initially sensitive to these drugs first regress but then activate different, “backup” genetic signals that enable them to […]
Can Brown Rice Slow the Spread of Type 2 Diabetes? The worldwide spike in type 2 diabetes in recent decades has paralleled a shift in diets away from staple foods rich in whole grains to highly refined carbohydrates, such as white rice and refined flours. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard School of Public […]
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Harvard University. Harvard Medical School. Generations of Leaders. Driving Change. Building Momentum. Making History. Since 1782, Harvard Medical School has been the incubator of bold ideas—a place where extraordinary people advance education, science and health care with unrelenting passion. Jeffrey S. Flier, MD. Bio. Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Harvard University Jeffrey S. Flier was named the 21st […]
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Harvard University. Harvard Medical School. Fact & Figures. Based in the Longwood Medical Area, the School has faculty, staff, students and trainees active on the main campus and at 17 affiliated hospitals and research institutes in the Boston area. We are committed to serving society by training physicians and scientists and by making discoveries and translating them into better prevention and […]
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Use, abuse of Internet pharmacies Study finds physicians need increased awareness “Abuse of medications purchased from websites can pose unique challenges to physicians because patients who abuse these medications may not fit clinical stereotypes of drug abusers,” said lead author of the article Anupam B. Jena, a clinical fellow in medicine at Harvard Medical School. / […]
Health reform in the crosshairs More system revisions appear inevitable, panelists say Robert Blendon (from left), HSPH professor of health policy and political analysis, David Cutler, the Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and professor in the HSPH Department of Global Health and Population, and Gail Wilensky, an economist and director of Medicare and Medicaid under […]
Slowing neurodegeneration in Huntington’s Increase in regulatory enzyme may offer protection University of Tennessee “Diseases such as Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s disease have different causative factors, but they share common themes — such as aggregation of misfolded proteins — and a unifying end point, the degenerative loss of neurons,” says Harvard Medical School Professor of […]
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