Archive: Fri Nov 2018

Harvard Pop Center awarded grant by NIA to further research on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among older adults in rural South Africa

November 02, 2018

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) a five-year grant to further its research on a rapidly growing, under-studied, at-risk population—older adults in rural South Africa—…

A look at alcohol use among youth taking alcohol-interactive medications

November 02, 2018

Elissa Weitzman, ScD, Harvard Pop Center faculty member and associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, is an author on a study that found that youth with chronic medical conditions who take medications that can interact negatively…