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Harvard Medical School researchers who followed the dietary intake of almost 30,000 women for 10 years have found that consuming calcium and Vitamin D can reduce the risk of high blood pressure. The study, which was published this month in the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Journal, showed that middle-aged women who regularly drank low-fat milk have a significantly lower chance of having hypertension risks than women who didn’t drink milk on a daily basis. JoAnn E. Manson ’75, a Medical School professor and the chair of preventive medicine...
...first time ever, UNICEF has reported that the number of child deaths for the year has fallen below 10 million. Fifteen of the least developed countries have reduced the under-5 mortality rate 40% or more since 1990, thanks to vaccines, health education, mosquito nets and a little vitamin A. Global progress at a glance...
...Wald, who passed away in 1997 at age 90, won his Nobel for discovering how vitamin A works on the molecular level to allow people to see. “Now today, we have therapies to help people who are blind,” said Wald’s former colleague, biology professor John E. Dowling...
...discovering the process by which Vitamin A bonds to form a structure when activated by light, Wald was the first to discover a biological mechanism that is critical to many other enzymatic processes in the body, such as olfactory responses and hormone regulation...
...Square, rushes to class—which she has scheduled back to back on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays—before changing into khakis and a shirt that is “an ungodly shade of blue” to take the red line downtown to work at the Vitamin Shoppe...