Better Off

In this week’s podcast: The Harvard Chan School community stands in solidarity with the victims of a horrific mass shooting in Orlando, FL.

In this week’s podcast: The push to reduce the amount of salt in processed foods, plus new research that could offer a way to prevent Zika virus and a range of other diseases, and why many students don't have easy access to water in school.

In this week’s podcast: The “superbug” that is igniting new concerns over antibiotic resistance, plus the common chemicals linked to health problems in women, and the global toll of slavery.

In this week’s podcast: A new report examines whether GMOs are harmful to our health, plus the physical toll of PTSD, and the healthy lifestyle that could prevent half of all cancer deaths in the U.S.

In this week’s podcast: the link between religion and health, plus preventing violence in hospitals, and how the opioid abuse epidemic in the United States is having an unintended ripple effect around the world.

In this week's podcast we take you inside the intense, three-day simulation that prepares humanitarian workers to respond to disasters around the world.

This week’s headlines: One state's push to regulate the modeling industry, plus medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, and the effort to change our perceptions of what healthy food can be.

This week's headlines: The effects of "infra-sound," a type of noise you can feel, but can't always hear, plus the new push to eliminate chewing tobacco from Major League Baseball, and new research linking spanking with negative outcomes.

This week's headlines: How green space can improve health, plus the new research center expanding our understanding of happiness, and the new concerns surrounding fast food.

This week’s headlines: The dramatic life expectancy gap between rich and poor Americans, plus how one state plans to battle the mosquitoes that carry Zika virus, and scientists reveal the best way to wash your hands.