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Around the world, suicide rates are higher among older adults than all other age groups combined—and higher among older men than older women, according to a new study.
On June 16, a federal judge in Boston ruled that the National Institutes of Health’s termination of hundreds of research grants was illegal and ordered the funds reinstated. In his…
Cuts to federal health funding are threatening research across a wide range of chronic diseases, from autoimmune disease to cognitive decline to cancer, according to experts.
For Nick Falkenberg, SM ’25, public health is a meaningful way to blend his analytical background with his desire to advance population health. “I studied statistics and economics in undergrad,”…
A new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Ben Gurion University, Israel, suggests that some people are “weight loss-resistant,” but will still improve their metabolism and reduce their long-term risk for disease through a healthy diet.
In the wake of the Trump administration’s sweeping terminations of federally funded grants at Harvard University, researchers at Harvard Chan School are lamenting the loss of lifesaving research across multiple disciplines.
People who self-identified as a sexual minority were nearly twice as likely to have a pregnancy that ended in abortion than their heterosexual peers—and thus may be disproportionately impacted by abortion restrictions, according to a study from Harvard Chan School.
