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Pritzker gift to fund possible solutions for child obesity including testing YMCA programs

To address the national and global epidemic of childhood obesity, Harvard College alumna Penny Pritzker '81 and her husband, Bryan Traubert, have pledged $5 million to Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) to fund the nationwide application of a childhood exercise and nutrition program that has been piloted by HSPH and the YMCA....... Additionally, the gift will underpin a scholarship fund for H...
(Date:6/18/2013)... 5% and 10% of breast and ovarian cancers are ... tumours are attributable to inherited mutations from the parents ... with these mutations, PARP inhibitors, which are currently in ... a new option for personalised cancer treatment, an alternative ... a fraction of these patients generate resistance to the ...
(Date:6/18/2013)... of internationally recognized feline experts including veterinarians and feline ... of Lincoln, U.K. and Dr Ilona Rodan, Director of ... International Society of Feline Medicine (ISFM) and the American ... veterinarians, owners and those working with cats on how ... The new guidelines appear in the Journal of ...
(Date:6/17/2013)... to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up ... as women who lived in areas with low pollution, according ... (HSPH). It is the first large national study to examine ... "Our findings raise concerns since, depending on the pollutant, 20% ... areas where risk of autism was elevated," said lead author ...
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