The Harvard School of Public Health has launched a new firearms research database.The Firearms Research Digest currently covers the period 2003-2008. Eventually, it will include material from 1988 to today. Coverage is international...

A new firearms research database launched by the Harvard School of Public Health makes scholarly articles more accessible to reporters, law enforcement, public health officials, policymakers, and the general public. The Firearms Re...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) increases by many folds following in...

Are MLB players fatter than ever? That's the contention of Eric Ding, of the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition. ...

The recently formed Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Center for Tobacco Products has just created a new Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee to review and evaluate safety, dependence, and health issues relating to toba...

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS) increases by many folds following in...

In a national poll aimed at helping with planning efforts for a public health response to a possible bioterrorism attack, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that, in response to a fictional scenario...

Yesterday Harvard Law School announced the creation of its Public Service Venture Fund, which promises to shell out $1 million in grants every year to students who want to work in the non-profit or public sector. According to the sc...

The latest poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that almost half of Americans believe the H1N1 flu outbreak is over (44%), and levels of concern about getting sick with the virus continue to decl...

Most Americans do not intend to get the swine flu vaccine, assume the pandemic is over and think the flu threat was overblown, according to a poll released Friday by the Harvard School of Public Health. ...

A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health reveals that almost half of Americans think the H1N1 flu outbreak is history. The poll was conducted January 20-24, 2010. My guess is that so many Americans think H1N1 is over since ...

Harvard Elementary School in Englewood was a teacher’s worst nightmare. Kids ran in and out of classrooms in the middle of class, started fights, and swore at faculty. Principals cycled through without making any impact. In 2007, le...

Among women who survive to age 70 or older, those who regularly participated in physical activity during middle age appear more likely to be in better overall health. Qi Sun, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Brig...

Below is an open letter from three classroom teachers to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which has justly earned its current reputation as institutionally allied with the anti-democratic, corporate deformation of public sc...

A new poll by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows the shortage of H1N1 vaccine for children is easing. As of late last week, three-quarters of parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children were ...

In response to my recent post on conservative and libertarian public interest law, various law students and others have e-mailed me to ask whether there is a single comprehensive list of right of center public interest firms. The cl...

A new study from researchers at the UK Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) projects that the severity of the H1N1 flu during the autumn-winter flu season in the U.S. will likely be less than previ...

A new study from researchers at the UK Medical Research Council and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) projects that the severity of the H1N1 flu during the autumn-winter flu season in the U.S. will likely be less than previ...

For the first time in over 70 years, Harvard is adding a new degree to its roster—a three-year doctoral in education leadership, no less. The idea is that the sorry state of public schools is a national emergency, and the attendant ...

A Harvard University school has presented its inaugural award for distinguished journalism in public health, honoring The New York Times for a series of articles on the subject of driving while distracted.