...Relief Services, United Nations Children's Fund, the Peace Corps and The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, to name a few. "Mainly what I focus on is to try to help improve projects and programs by using data, by...

Richard Slieter, administrator of the Community Behavioral Health Hospital in Baxter, will speak on mental health issues in the community at the League of Women Voters of the Brainerd Lakes Area membership meeting. The presentation will be Thursday at the Brainerd Public Library with snacks at 5:30 p.m. and the program at 6 p.m.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.

...graduated from the University of North Dakota and is currently a graduate student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. The couple is making their home in Minneapolis.

Women who gain weight after their 18th birthday are more likely to develop asthma as adults than those who do not, according to a study of more than 85,000 registered nurses conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.

...focusing on fat as the leading dietary culprit. ''This is an improvement,'' said Frank Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. ''The previous guidelines emphasized low-fat diets and limited total fat consumption. This report...

Worried about cancer? The Harvard School of Public Health offers a new way for people to evaluate their risk of breast, colon, lung and prostate cancer -- four of the leading types of...

SAN DIEGO - Vitamin C pills may speed up hardening of the arteries, researchers suggest in a new study they called a disturbing surprise.

...teen-age driver dying increases with each additional passenger -- particularly with young passengers. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health researcher Li-Hui Chen and her colleagues found that 16-year-olds carrying one passenger were 39 percent...

...according to researchers who conclude that many winners are undernourished. Nutrition experts from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health used the heights and weights from most of the winners in the pageant's 78-year history for their study in...