... U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes – or hookahs – and it’s becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher ...
... social repercussions that can be engendered by a legal framework that penalizes abortion. From the public health point of view, unsafe abortion practices significantly accentuate maternal mortality, ...
... and director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas School of Public Health and the principal investigator of the trial. "If these results are replicated, the Iomai vaccine ...
... Frenk, an eminent authority on global health who served as
the Minister of Health of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, ... become the new
dean of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), President Drew
Faust ...
Julius B. Richmond, a seminal figure in the history of American public health and pediatrics, and the first national director of the Head Start program, who held professorial positions at three ...
... of birth, lead author Marivel Davila said. Davila is a graduate student at the UT School of Public Health and a quantitative research analyst at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Elevated ...
... services even in the most resource-constrained settings.
The editors are encouraged by the fact that surgeons and public health professionals are now coming together to build a movement to promote ...
Canadians should have known earlier about the listeriosis outbreak that has killed at least 16 people, according to the medical director of Ontario's public health laboratories.
... the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the theme issue examines scientific and ethical ... been published by Dr. Santelli in the American Journal of Public Health (October 2008, vol 98, ...
Julio Frenk, who will become Dean of Harvard School of Public Health in
January, 2009, has received a Clinton Global Citizen Award.
In naming Frenk, along with four other individuals,
former ...
The Public Health Agency of Canada is investigating a potential outbreak of Salmonella poona after six cases and 14 suspected cases have been reported in Canada.
... Eliminate LF has already become the most rapidly scaled-up drug administration programme in public health history, and is on track to becoming the largest such programme in history. The study found ...
... events, and other climate-related changes in the worldwide environment that directly affect public health, are examined in the November issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This ...
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QResearch project leader, Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox of The University of Nottingham, said: "The Public Health Indicator data can be used to identify patterns and wider health trends so that ...
... evidence discovered by researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health Brownsville Regional Campus shows ... Health team has now led three new studies that revealed key findings: Type ...
