Physical activity and weight gain prevention
2010 study by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and others on the relationship between different amounts of physical activity and weight changes.
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topics of race and gender
2010 study by researchers from the Harvard Medical School and others on the relationship between different amounts of physical activity and weight changes.
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2010 Harvard School of Public Health study on the relative effectiveness of regular mammography screening on breast-cancer mortality.
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2010 study by researchers from UCSF, the University of Oklahoma and UC Berkeley on the prevalence of obesity among California public school students.
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Study by researchers from Harvard, Vanderbilt and Brigham and Women’s Hospital on the rate of hearing loss among U.S. adolescents.
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2010 report by the Pew Hispanic Center on the characteristics of unauthorized immigrants’ families, parenting status and their children.
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2009 RAND Corporation study on the disparities between Latino and African-American males and their white counterparts in California.
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2010 paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives on how the disparity in men’s and women’s math and verbal test scores might be explained by state or regional differences.
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2010 survey by the Pew Hispanic Center on the relative attitudes of foreign- and U.S.-born Hispanics toward the 2010 Census.
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2012 Yale University and Washington University of St. Louis study on the cost-effectiveness of three types of peer-intervention methods.
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2009 Duke University and the University of Maryland study looking at school characteristics that influence the level of crime.
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