Obese children who cut back on their sugar intake see improvements in their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of health after just 10 days, a rigorous new study found. Frank Hu (Brigham and Women’s/Channing Lab) is quoted.
While high doses of aspirin are associated with temporary hearing loss, many other drugs can cause permanent hearing loss and damage. Sharon Curhan (Brigham and Women’s) is quoted.
Delivering the right mental health treatment to patients around the world is an area often neglected by health care facilities, according to the director of the HMS Center for Global Health Delivery-Dubai, Salmaan Keshavjee.
A research division of the World Health Organization announced on Monday that bacon, sausage and other processed meats cause cancer, and that red meat probably does, too. Jonathan Schoenfeld (Brigham and Women’s/Dana-Farber) is quoted.
Though tobacco use among teens has decreased since the 1970’s, smoking remains a major public health threat and e-cigarettes are a growing concern. Claire McCarthy (Boston Children’s) is quoted.
Ajay K. Singh (Brigham and Women’s), Peter Howley (HMS), Ed Harlow (HMS) and George D. Demetri (Dana-Farber) are mentioned in this article about the Harvard Medical School Cancer Biology and Therapeutics program (HMS-CBT), a collaboration between the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute and Harvard Medical School.
