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 d…

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 aroun…

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 w…

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 l…

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…

This week's headlines: A new poll reveals major misperceptions about Zika virus, plus a closer look at President Obama's "Cancer Moonshot," and we'll tell you about a push to change the way businesse…

This week’s headlines: The dangers of sleep apnea among truck drivers, plus the African nation that's outpacing many Western nations—including the U.S.—when it comes to HIV treatment, and we'll tell …

In this special edition of the podcast we explore what your microbiome is, why it matters, and how it could change how we treat a range of diseases.

This week's headlines: What's your Healthy Heart Score? Why the answer to that question could make it easier to prevent a range of diseases. Plus, a closer look at Zika's impact on women, and new res…

This week’s headlines: A top Federal official explains how Zika might impact the United States, plus how cutting the price of fruits and vegetables could save hundreds of thousands of lives, and we'l…

This week’s headlines: One expert sees parallels between Zika virus and the AIDS epidemic, plus the new discovery revealing that our intestines have taste buds, and we'll tell you where the most well…

This week’s headlines: The impact of income disparities, plus a proposal to ban smoking at public housing complexes across the country, and is organic meat and milk healthier for you?

This week’s headlines: New research on the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, plus why experts say the global burden of mental illness is drastically underestimated, and should scientists be a…

In this week’s episode: One expert explains why the Zika outbreak may be a sign of the “new normal,” plus President Obama’s billion-dollar initiative to battle opioid addiction, and why young women m…