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Big advance against cystic fibrosis | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Harvard stem cell researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have taken a critical step toward discovering in the relatively near future a drug to control cystic fibrosis, a fatal lung disease that claims about 500 lives each year, with 1,000 new cases diagnosed annually.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Intuitive? Try God | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Harvard researchers exploring the roots of religion have found that intuitive thinking leads to belief in God, while more reflective thinking points toward atheism.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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The no-diet dietitian | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Forget nutrition labels and calorie counting. Michelle Gallant, a clinical dietitian at Harvard University Health Services, is on a one-woman mission to teach how proper eating means trusting your gut.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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The no-diet dietitian | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Forget nutrition labels and calorie counting. Michelle Gallant, a clinical dietitian at Harvard University Health Services, is on a one-woman mission to teach how proper eating means trusting your gut.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Harvard University's No-Diet Dietitian--Great article on Michelle Gallant, who teaches #IntuitiveEating classes. http://t.co/V9ZYpsde
The parenting divide | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Pei-Chia Lan is exploring how Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants negotiate cultural differences in child rearing and how they parent transnationally.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Hormones in milk can be dangerous
news.harvard.edu — “Hormones in milk can be dangerous” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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I've blogged about it and now Harvard is talking about it. Dairy accounts for 60-80% of the hormones we consume.... http://t.co/UxowdQs9
Obesity? Diabetes? We’ve been set up | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “The twin epidemics of obesity and its cousin, diabetes, have been the target of numerous studies at Harvard and its affiliated hospitals and institutions. Harvard researchers have produced a dizzying array of findings on the often related problems.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Obesity? Diabetes? We’ve been set up | Harvard Gazette http://t.co/Fz4yIEKB via @harvard
Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “A study by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital indicates that the inhaled anesthetic isoflurane impairs learning and memory in mammalian brains by damaging mitochondria, a finding that suggests the anesthetic desflurane may be a better choice for Alzheimer’s patients and others susceptible to cognitive dysfunction.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Lady Gaga, Winfrey target bullying | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta launched the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment initiative, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Feb. 29.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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the @BTWFoundation is a great use of celebrity and social media, @LadyGaga and @Oprah at @Harvard launch yesterday http://t.co/aoiYynhQ
Right choice, but not the intuitive one | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “When faced with a tough choice, we already have the cognitive tools we need to make the right decision, Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology, told a Harvard Law School audience on Feb. 16. The hard part is overcoming the tricks our minds play on us that render rational decision-making nearly impossible.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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“@russellcris: How to Make the Right choice, but not the intuitive one | Harvard Gazette http://t.co/MHXzWGfP via @harvard”
Pain relief for patients in Uganda | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “A collaboration between anesthesiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital and overworked doctors at an African hospital provides training in a technique that can soothe patients during surgical recoveries.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Where medicine meets artistry | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Transit Gallery at Harvard Medical School, with a new show up, invites busy walkers to slow down and look. Co-exhibitors Svetlana Boym and Deb Todd Wheeler will discuss their work and attend a reception on Feb. 15.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Exploring roots of hunger, eating behaviors | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Synaptic plasticity — the ability of the synaptic connections between the brain’s neurons to change and modify over time — has been shown to be a key to memory formation and the acquisition of new learning behaviors. Now research reveals that the neural circuits controlling hunger and eating behaviors are also controlled by plasticity.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Harvard Thinks Green: Why Physicians Must Protect the Global Environment | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “Dr. Eric Chivian from Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, named by Time Magazine in 2008 as” View full resource at news.harvard.edu
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Harvard Thinks Green: Why Physicians Must Protect the Global Environment | Harvard Gazette http://t.co/L9FEui2Z via @harvard
Canned soup linked to higher BPA levels | Harvard Gazette
news.harvard.edu — “A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health has found that the volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five days had a more than 1,000 percent increase in urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared with the group who consumed fresh soup daily for five days. The study is one of the first to quantify BPA levels in humans after ingestion of canned foods.” View full resource at news.harvard.edu

