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...week over a Harvard Web site that allows people to assess their risk for five common diseases in the United States caused the site to be temporarily inaccessible due to heavy traffic. Yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu, created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Protection (HCCP) at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), features a risk index for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoperosis, and stroke. An article about the site published in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday caused 22,000 people with unique IP addresses to try the site in a two-hour window, according to Webmaster of HSPH Deane Eastwood...
...study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) may help senior citizens divine the importance of attending church to their physical health. The soon-to-be released report cites a correlation between church service attendance and improved lung health in subjects aged 70 to 79. The findings will be published in the upcoming issue of “Annals of Behavioral Medicine.” Researchers sorted the seniors into three broad categories based on the frequency of their church attendance. The subjects were also monitored for lung health based on their performance in a series of breathing...
Gaining even a modest amount of weight between pregnancies could lead to serious complications in childbirth, according to a new report from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study, published in the Sept. 30 issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, examined a population of more than 150,000 Swedish women who had their first and second births between 1992 and 2001. Researchers found that women who gained weight between pregnancies were at a higher risk of adverse outcomes such as gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and stillbirth. “It turns out that women...
...apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study released yesterday says a dish of fish also performs swimmingly. Lead author Dariush Mozaffarian and his colleague, Eric B. Rimm, have concluded that the nutritional benefits of fish far outweigh qualms over the chemicals they may contain. Over the past year, Mozaffarian, an HSPH instructor in epidemiology, and Rimm, a HSPH associate professor, waded through research on the nutritive effects of fish. “There had been a lot of media attention...over the potential risks associated with contaminants that are found...
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) are conducting a survey that will determine whether Americans will comply with the government’s proposed non-pharmaceutical contingency plan for a flu pandemic. The study comes on the heels of a government proposal to use primitive measures to control a killer flu outbreak until a vaccine and treatment drugs are available. But HSPH experts say that the results of the study are still up in the air. “I don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health...