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Delivering Babies—and Trust—in the Mountains of Mexico
Ana Nieves/S4CDr. Gaby Chalup, a social service year physician with PIH’s Mexican sister organization Compañeros En Salud, comforts a young patient. When Dr. Gaby Chalup arrived in the community of Plan de la Libertad, in Chiapas, Mexico, she didn’t expect to be delivering babies. Read More…
14 hours 4 min ago
Applying global health lessons to U.S. health care
May 17, 2013 — The conversation around health care policy in the United States, mired as it is in partisan bickering, has gone off course from what should be its larger goal — building the foundation of a secure and prosperous society, according to Harvard… Read More…
14 hours 47 min ago
Threat to U.S. from new “bird flu” virus: possible but unknown
Beginning in March, 2013, reports started to come out of Eastern China that a new "bird flu" virus was loose and causing infections in humans. The new virus is called H7N9. Should we in the U.S. be worried? Neither I nor anyone I know can give a confident answer to that question. So far the news is reassuring. A report from the U.S. Read More…
15 hours 4 min ago
Paul Farmer on WGBH’s “Innovation Hub”
Kara Miller and Kinne Chapin of WGBH Radio's "Innovation Hub" interview Dr. Paul Farmer. Full article: http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/paul-farmers-vision-health. Read More…
16 hours 58 min ago
Risky Gender Gap
Risky Gender GapFemale college students exceed alcohol guidelines more frequently than male college students May 17, 2013Female college students exceed alcohol guidelines more frequently than male college students SEO Categories: Health Care Policy Read More…
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What do you love about HSPH?
In honor of HSPH’s centennial year, we are asking people from across the School’s community to share what they love about HSPH. Whether it’s a professor who changed the course of your career, an important contribution someone at the School made to the field of… Read More…
18 hours 33 min ago
Change in cycle track policy needed to boost ridership, public health
Boston, MA – Bicycle engineering guidelines often used by state regulators to design bicycle facilities need to be overhauled to reflect current cyclists’ preferences and safety data, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. They say that U.S. guidelines… Read More…
19 hours 49 min ago
Malaria in Malawi: 200 Cases a Day
Photo: Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners In Health Two hundred people: That’s the average number of patients testing positive for malaria each day of the month-long rainy season at a single hospital in Malawi. Malaria attacks red blood cells, which become infected by parasite-carrying mosquitos. Photo: Rebecca E. Read More…
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Rehab Hospital Renewal
Rehab Hospital RenewalSpaulding completes move to new home in Charlestown Navy Yard By TIM SULLIVANMay 16, 2013Spaulding completes move to new home in Charlestown Navy Yard Read More…
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