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Media publicity generated this week over a Harvard Web site that allows people to assess their risk for five common diseases in the United States caused the site to be temporarily inaccessible due to heavy traffic. Yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Protection (HCCP) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), features a risk index for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoperosis, and stroke. An article about the site published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday caused 22,000 people with unique IP addresses to try the site in a two-hour window, according to Webmaster...
...goal of Your Disease Risk is to show people that they can change their behaviors to avert prevalent, life-altering conditions, said HCCP Director Graham A. Colditz in a press release...
Researchers at the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention (HCCP) hope that a visit to a new website today will keep the doctor away...
According to data compiled by HCCP, 900,000 people in the United States die from heart disease and stroke each year. An additional 550,000 succumb to cancer, and 70,000 are killed by diabetes. There are also 1.5 million new cases of osteoporosis diagnosed each year...
While the web site targets the commuting novice, HCCP also recognizes seasoned commuters...