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...Broad Institute, a joint venture between Harvard and MIT that specializes in genomics. Lander said genetic applications to medicine have largely focused on “first-world diseases,” such as cancer. The conference, held on Africa Malaria Day at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), explored new ways of combatting the disease that claims more than one million lives—mostly young African children—every year. “There are over 200 million new cases of malaria each year,” said Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases Dyann F. Wirth...
...idea appeared in 160 prime-time episodes over four years," says Jay Winsten, HSPH's associate dean. "Drunk-driving fatalities fell 25% over the next three years...
...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)--the folks behind the designated-driver campaign--are pushing to get the smokes off the screen. "Some movies show kids up to 14 incidents of smoking per hour," says Barry Bloom, HSPH's dean. "We're in the business of preventing disease, and cigarettes are the No. 1 preventable cause...
...April 12 news article "HSPH Study Backs Polio Eradication" misrepresented the findings of a School of Public Health study on the impact of polio vaccinations. The article stated that the study had found that “if vaccinations stopped, 1.1 million cases of the disease could erupt in the United States alone, ultimately costing the country $180 billion more than if the original policy were maintained.” In fact, the researchers determined that if the United States had ceased vaccinations, 1.1 million cases of the disease would have broken out in the United States alone. The breakout...
...goal is to eliminate smoking from youth-accessible films,” HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom, the lead presenter, wrote in an e-mailed statement...