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How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition Harvard …

WEBGiovannucci noted that the Harvard VITAL study found a reduction in cancer mortality among participants after six years of taking 2,000 international units of vitamin D daily. …

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At Home with Harvard: Health Care in America

WEBIn this week’s At Home with Harvard, we’ve rounded up Harvard Magazine ’s most germane past work on the crises in American health care—made all the more urgent by a …

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Inflammation causes many common diseases of aging Harvard …

WEBIn 2007, associate professor of medicine Samia Mora and colleagues published a study of exercise that sought to understand why physical activity is salutary. They already knew …

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Healthy Plate, Healthy Planet Harvard Magazine

WEBHealthy Plate, Healthy Planet. Frank Hu confronts the triple threats of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change. Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a …

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Social Media Use and Adult Depression Harvard Magazine

WEBParenting teenagers in 2022 generally entails worrying about their use of platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok; multiple studies point to links between social-media …

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The Medical-Robotics Revolution Harvard Magazine

WEBThese kinds of innovations are already in the vanguard of the field of medical robotics, says professor of surgery Pierre Dupont, a leading designer of robotic systems for use in …

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Center for Health and Happiness established at Harvard

WEBNovember-December 2016. Illustration by Jeanine Murch. VIsit the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness website. In the quest to study human happiness, …

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New Dean for Public Health Harvard Magazine

WEBAndrea Baccarelli, an environmental health sciences scholar, will become dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) on January 1, 2024.An expert in the …

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David Cutler on trimming U.S. healthcare costs Harvard Magazine

WEBSo it is especially useful to pair their essay with David Cutler’s nuanced explanations of why American health care costs so much: about $3.5 trillion per year (that’s the norm, before …

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Reparations as Public Health Harvard Magazine

WEBA Harvard forum on the racial health gap. “Health is wealth,” said Julia Mejia, Boston City Councilor At-Large, during a conversation Monday afternoon with Harvard’s Mary T. …

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David Sinclair’s anti-aging science Harvard Magazine

WEBUnderlying the wide-ranging benefits of calorie restriction, Sinclair explains, are sirtuins—a group of seven genes that appear to be very important in regulating the aging process. …

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How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains Harvard Magazine

WEBEmerging evidence shows that exposure to air pollution increases the incidence and progression of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurocognitive diseases, according …

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The Health Benefits of Owning a Pet Harvard Magazine

WEBToday is National Pet Day, and pet owners have another reason to celebrate: their pets are helping them live healthier, longer lives.“Pet owners are less likely to die,” said Harvard …

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Financial and mental health are linked Harvard Magazine

WEBFurthermore, the relationship goes both ways: financial troubles can lead to depression and anxiety, and depression and anxiety can make it harder for people to succeed …

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How Homelessness is a Public Health Crisis Harvard Magazine

WEBRyan Keen, Ph.D. ’23, a postdoc at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH), has found that childhood experience of housing insecurity is linked to elevated levels of …

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Researchers study tai chi benefits Harvard Magazine

WEBOne study on the immune response to varicella-zoster virus (which causes shingles) suggested in 2007 that tai chi may enhance the immune system and improve overall …

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The Mindfulness Chronicles

WEBThe physiological results provided evidence for a simple but invaluable fact: the aging process is indeed less fixed than most people think. But the study also helped launch …

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Kari Nadeau Harvard Magazine

WEBInspired by her father and mother, a public health nurse, Nadeau studied biology at Haverford College before graduating with an M.D./Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in …

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Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard Medical School studies placebos

WEBThe Placebo Phenomenon. An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine. Two weeks into Ted Kaptchuk ’s first randomized clinical drug trial, nearly a …

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Harvard Graduation Morning Exercises Commencement 2021

WEBHarvard Commencement Program, May 27, 2021. The extra lead time also enabled tweaks to this morning’s online events themselves. Although this year’s program largely …

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The loneliness pandemic Harvard Magazine

WEBThe Loneliness Pandemic. Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to …

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