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Mailman School Of Public Health News

Girl's Puberty Book Project Provides An International Model For Promoting Female Health In AfricaThursday, June 30, 2011 @ 3:38PMA promising new approach: Reaching girls before they become sexually active The onset of puberty is a critical moment for reaching girls with health messages and information, and the stakes are particularly high in countries where the HIV/AIDS epidemic rages and where threats to female reproductive health abound. Yet to date, the healthcare community in low-resource countries has tended to ...

PRINCETON: Resident to head state agencyThursday, June 30, 2011 @ 2:27AMMary E. OâDowd of Princeton is the new commissioner of the state Department of Health and Senior Services.

Girl's Puberty Book Project provides an international model for promoting female health in AfricaWednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 8:12PMThe onset of puberty is a critical moment for reaching girls with health messages and information, and the stakes are particularly high in countries where the HIV/AIDS epidemic rages and where threats to female reproductive health abound. Yet to date, the healthcare community in low-resource countries has tended to neglect this opportunity and instead concentrate efforts on young women who are ...

Girl's Puberty Book Project provides an international model for promoting female health in AfricaWednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 8:12PMThe onset of puberty is a critical moment for reaching girls with health messages and information, and the stakes are particularly high in countries where the HIV/AIDS epidemic rages and where threats to female reproductive health abound. Yet to date, the healthcare community in low-resource countries has tended to neglect this opportunity and instead concentrate efforts on young women who are ...

How Being Poor Can Kill YouMonday, June 27, 2011 @ 10:51AMPoverty carries a high cost and new research seems to confirm what many of us already know: Being poor can literally make you sick.

'Poverty accounts for as many deaths in US as heart attacks, strokes'Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 9:37AMWashington, June 17 : Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health have found that poverty, low levels of education, poor social support and other social factors contribute about as many deaths in the U.S. as such familiar causes as heart attacks, strokes and lung cancer.

White Plains Hospital CEO Jon B. Schandler Wins Father of the Year AwardThursday, June 9, 2011 @ 8:41PMNew York - White Plains, NY (June, 2011) - White Plains Hospital President and CEO, Jon B. Schandler has been named a 2011 Father of the Year by the Greater New York Father’s Day Council of Westchester County.

Buck Institute launches advisory groupMonday, June 6, 2011 @ 9:28AMNOVATO – The Buck Institute on Aging, its campus expanded with a new $50 million stem cell laboratory, is now looking to expand its name in the world.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Research Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncologists MeetingMonday, June 6, 2011 @ 7:49AMAmong those presenting at this year's American Society of Clinical Oncologists meeting are physician-scientists from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. The meeting takes place June 3-7, at McCormick Place, Chicago.