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(Harvard School of Public Health) Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Providence Health & Services have found that expanding low income adults' access to Medicaid substantially increases health care use, reduces financial strain on covered individuals, and improves their self-reported health and well-being.

(Harvard School of Public Health) A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds 63 percent of Massachusetts residents support the health care reform legislation enacted in 2006, 21 percent oppose it while 6 percent are not sure and 9 percent have not heard or read about the law.

(Harvard School of Public Health) In response to the H1N1 flu, most employees at US businesses say their company took measures to protect them from illness, such as encouraging sick employees to stay home, according to a national poll of employees by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health.

Smaller, but notable, percentages of employees reported that their company took other actions such as creating back-up systems for employees to cover each others' work and expanding leave policies.

(Harvard School of Public Health) A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Boston Globe finds 59 percent of Massachusetts residents who are aware of the state's health reform legislation, which was enacted in 2006, support it.

(Brown University) Researchers from Brown University, the Harvard School of Public Health, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, and the University of Edinburgh say Brazil's push for inexpensive, low-cost HIV and AIDS treatments has helped contain thevirus during the last 20 years.

Details will be published in the July/Augustissue of Health Affairs.

(Harvard School of Public Health) A new study from Harvard School of Public Health researchers shows that tobacco manufacturers have continually changed the ingredients and the design of their cigarettes over time, even if those changes have exceeded acceptable product variance guidelines.