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...disease that causes bone destruction and periodontal tissue inflammation. “This is one of the first, if not the first, study demonstrating such a significant relationship in such a large group of people,” said Frank B. Hu, professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at HSPH. The association found in this study can be of “substantial public health importance,” said Hu, who was a co-author of the paper. Monik C. Jimenez—a fifth year doctoral student at HSPH and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...
Many said they predicted Koh would serve in the Obama administration in some capacity, but few guessed he would assume what James H. Ware, the dean for academic affairs at HSPH, called the “highest public health position in the federal government...
Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, an HSPH associate professor who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is one of Koh’s most frequent collaborators, said that there is “remarkable resonance” in the civil and private sector to overhaul health care—and that Koh will be there to lead the effort...
Nancy Turnbull, an associate dean at HSPH, said that her department was “giddy” about the nomination. She said that Koh is one of the best communicators she has ever met, and that he has the unique ability to take complicated information and make it relevant to a broad array of audiences...
...better than high fat diets with the same amount of calories, the study reveals that it is the number of calories that matters most. “I think that people can really pick whatever healthy diet they like,” said Frank M. Sacks, a professor at HSPH and lead author of the study, naming Mediterranean, low-fat, and vegan diets as examples. “Our results say that these diets would work the same.” The researchers said that these findings do not invalidate the effectiveness of any commercial diets, only that...