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...countries. A captivated audience listened as Farmer, an internationally acclaimed physician and public health activist, explained how his HIV Equity Initiative is expanding its prevention and care programs to impoverished rural communities to Rwanda. The intiative, which is part of Farmer’s “Partners in Health?? charity, was the first program in the world to offer free antiretroviral therapy and has been active in Haiti since 1987. More than five percent of the adults in Rwanda are infected with HIV or AIDS, and the World Health Organization estimates that 40.3 million people have...
...extra flights of stairs a day decreased death rates by 33 percent. In the book, Simon sets up a points system, similar to the Weight Watchers method, which assigns different point values for everyday activities. According to this system, everyone should aim for 150 points a day for maximum health??which can be achieved by half an hour of heavy cleaning or cooking for 75 minutes. The book also notes that 15 minutes of sex is equivalent to 25 points. Those who are looking to lose weight should engage in physical activity amounting to 300 points...
It’s not the Law School, or the School of Public Health??or even the Kennedy School of Government, for that matter...
...illegal. Members of the Church—particularly in the American Southwest and Mexico, where the plant naturally grows—ritualistically eat buttons of peyote as part of their regular campfire ceremonies.Five years ago, the researchers from McLean—a Boston hospital specializing in mental health??set out to verify the claims of the Native American Church that the drug causes little, if any, long-term psychological damage. For the study, Instructor in Psychiatry John H. Halpern traveled to the Southwest to spend time with members of the Navajo tribe. During his stay, Halpern consumed peyote...
Erin Brockovich-Ellis, the iconic environmental activist who drew widespread attention to water contamination in a community in California, was honored with the Harvard School of Public Health??s (HSPH) most prestigious award yesterday, angering a lawyers’ group and others at the University who discredit the science behind Brockovich-Ellis’ activism.Brockovich-Ellis was a clerk at a law firm in Hinkley, Calif. when her investigations revealed that hundreds of people in a single neighborhood had been exposed to water contaminated with chromium-6, dumped there by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brockovich convinced...