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  • The Best Diet Ever: Three Key Ingredients

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    As weight loss and maintenance is one of my specialties, I am often asked, “What is the best diet?” People are often disappointed by my response. I tell them, “The best diet meets three conditions:It's a healthy diet.It's a diet that includes your favorite foods, in moderation, even if they're not entirely healthy.It's a diet…

  • Medellin: The Right Place and Time for Collaborative Learning in Public Health

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    by Negeen Darani, Harvard Humanitarian InitiativePhoto by Kevin Dooley. Today marks Day 2 of the Post-Conflict Colombia and Public Health course — a project of the Open Hands Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), in collaboration with the University of Antioquia School of Medicine. Sixteen students from the Harvard T.H. Chan…

  • Oral contraceptive use early in pregnancy not tied to defects

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    By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Women who accidentally keep taking oral contraceptives after becoming pregnant shouldn't worry about birth defects, a new study suggests. An analysis of nearly 900,000 births found no connection between oral contraceptive use right before or during pregnancy and birth defects in babies, researchers report in The BMJ. “For…

  • UniQure shares jump on promising gene therapy data

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    Dutch biotech UniQure NV said its experimental gene therapy for a blood disorder benefited some patients in an early-stage study, offering a rare ray of hope in gene therapy research plagued by a series of failed trials. Janney Capital Markets analyst Debjit Chattopadhyay said UniQure’s data looked better than that of Baxalta Inc’s rival drug.…