Harvard School of Public Health

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  Entitlement growth a boon to seniors

  By Charles Babington  |  May 13, 2013

  With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources.

• Medicaid improved mental health for uninsured

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  May 2, 2013

  If you're uninsured, getting on Medicaid clearly improves your mental health, but it doesn't seem to make much difference in physical conditions such as high blood pressure.

• Americans not sweet on soda taxation

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  May 1, 2013

  Americans have a message for the government: Leave our sweet tooth alone.

• Where in the world is Kathleen Sebelius?

  By Denis Storey  |  May 1, 2013

  “You get what you pay for.” And that’s true. But as this health care law is proving almost every week now, you get what you don’t plan for, too.

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  Where in the world is Kathleen Sebelius?

  By Denis Storey  |  April 10, 2013

  I know they say, “You get what you pay for.” And that’s certainly true. But as this health care law is proving almost every week now, you get what you don't plan for, too.

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  Kathleen Sebelius: Much confusion on ACA

  By Jennifer Haberkorn, Politico  |  April 9, 2013

  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she underestimated how long the politics of health reform would last and didn’t anticipate how much confusion the slow rollout of the legislation would create.

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  Obama health law anniversary dawns on 2 Americas

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  March 22, 2013

  Three years, two elections, and one Supreme Court decision after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, its promise of health care for the uninsured may be delayed or undercut in much of the country because of entrenched opposition from many Republican state leaders.

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  Americans want government action on health initiatives—sometimes

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  March 13, 2013

  The government should have a role in preventing obesity and promoting other good health measures, the public thinks—just as long as their interventions don’t go too far.

• Study shows declining life span for some US women

  By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer  |  March 4, 2013

  A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain.

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  Will Obama’s order lead to surge in gun research?

  By Marilynn Marchione  |  January 17, 2013

  Nearly as many Americans die from guns as from car crashes each year. We know plenty about the second problem and far less about the first. A scarcity of research on how to prevent gun violence has left policymakers shooting in the dark as they craft gun control measures without...