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...undergraduates, it is being hailed as a positive development in student health. “I’m hoping this is a step forward in advancing the power of prevention,” said Dr. Howard K. Koh, an Associate Dean at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Dr. David S. Rosenthal ’59, director of University Health Services (UHS), said yesterday that Gardasil was a significant vaccine. “We are obviously very strongly helping the college students promote it,” said Rosenthal. “We’ve been monitoring...
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Professor Gregory N. Connolly, whose findings on the rising nicotine content in cigarettes drew ire from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA last month, will bring his fight against Big Tobacco to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Connolly will appear before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to argue in support of legislation recently introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) calling upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the cigarette and smokeless...
...time before my exam.” As the term draws to a close, Nkuebe is not the only student witnessing a drastic change in eating habits. According to Christopher Duggan, an associate professor in the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) department of nutrition, the pressing specter of exams has effects on the body that go beyond sweaty palms. “The psychological stress of finals can result in significant alterations in eating, sleeping, and exercise patterns, which closely mimic what are thought of as more ‘physiologic’ stress patterns, such...
...problems linked to smoking, cigarettes now have more nicotine—the substance that makes them addictive. Tobacco companies have raised nicotine levels in cigarettes by 11 percent—about 1.6 percent per year—between 1998 and 2005, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) confirmed on Thursday. The findings were first reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis. “Cigarettes are finely-tuned drug delivery devices, designed to perpetuate a tobacco pandemic...
...have that kind of impact on new generations as one of my proudest achievements.” The goals of the national mentorship campaign are to recognize the work of mentors and to recruit new volunteers, said Susan Moses, the co-director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Harvard Mentoring Project. Other personalities include Maya Angelou, Clint Eastwood, and Sting, all of whom will be making public service announcements to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring. Jones—after whom Harvard’s first-ever endowed African American music professorship is named?...