Stanford-bound student faces something unexpected during gap year: mortality

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events At the U.S. Education Department, student Katherine Du holds up an anthology of teen writing in which her work is published Katherine Du is a 17-year-old who is on a gap year before starting Stanford University this fall. She grew up in London and Connecticut, and attended the private Greenwich Academy.

Timing of your meals might reduce heart risks

… meal frequency may not affect people’s weight, levels of “good” HDL cholesterol or other factors that affect heart health. Some people, she noted, do well with “grazing” throughout the day — as long as the food choices are healthy, and they do not …

Study finds increase in deaths from preventable illness in Delhi, despite investments in health care

Recent government expenditures to improve access to effective health care in Delhi, India, have been insufficient to overcome the impact of poverty and inequalities, leading to a rise in deaths from preventable illness such as septicemia and tuberculosis in the capital city, according to a study led by Rutgers School of Public Health researcher Michael K. Gusmano. In a paper recently published in the journal Public Health , Gusmano and researchers from New York University and Columbia University found that compared to similar large middle-income nations, India has failed to achieve minimal sanitation and public health standards, resulting in a climbing rate of amenable mortality .