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...program called “5-2-1-Go!” “The protective effect we found for girls was very strong,” said lead author S. Bryn Austin, an assistant professor at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). “It cut the risk for girls by two-thirds, that’s really quite large.” Yet boys in the health program did not demonstrate any measurable reduction in the unhealthy weight control behaviors—a result that surprised the authors...
...recent survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) “Project on the Public and Biological Survey” highlights the inadequacies of hurricane preparedness in eight states with high hurricane risk counties...
Over 30 percent of residents said that they would not leave if government officials said they had to evacuate due to a major hurricane. In a similar survey conducted in 2006, only 23 percent of people said they would not evacuate. The study, which the HSPH developed in consultation with government and Red Cross officials, was designed to assess problems residents had during past hurricanes and attitudes towards upcoming emergencies...
...results are certainly the strongest out there yet…there is a dramatically strong effect or association that we see,” said lead author Marc G. Weisskopf, an assistant professor of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology at HSPH...
...study followed 18,000 men who provided blood samples between 1993 and 1995 to the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a 21-year-old all-male study conducted by HSPH. Of this group, 84 individuals were later diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Urate levels in these individuals’ blood samples were then monitored and compared with those of control subjects with matching age, race, and time of blood collection...