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  • Brazilian studies aim to unravel Zika’s link to birth defects

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    By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – At Roberto Santos General Hospital in Salvador, Brazil, Dr. Antonio Almeida and a team of specialists are closely following two groups of women: Those who deliver babies with abnormally small heads and those who deliver apparently normal babies. The hospital is one of three in this city on Brazil’s eastern coast…

  • 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…