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Peter Wehrwein
Contributor, Harvard Health
Peter Wehrwein was the editor of the Harvard Health Letter from 1999 to May 2012. He is currently a freelance writer and editor, and contributes to the Harvard Health blog and HarvardProstateKnowledge.org. Before editing the Health Letter, he was editor of the Harvard Public Health Review and director of development communications at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to working at Harvard, Wehrwein was a reporter for newspapers in Albany, N.Y., Union City, N.J., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Big Lake, Minn. He has written for Newsweek, The Lancet, Managed Care, and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Wehrwein was a journalism fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in 1993-94. He earned a B.A. in history from Yale University in 1980.
Posts by Peter Wehrwein
Peter Wehrwein
Switching to generic Lipitor
Peter Wehrwein
Do you want to see your doctor’s medical notes?
Peter Wehrwein
Obama going gray: Do presidents age faster?
Peter Wehrwein
World AIDS Day 2011: Is the HIV/AIDS glass finally half full?
Peter Wehrwein
Medications most likely to put older Americans in the hospital
Peter Wehrwein
Yoga may help feet, ease migraine
Peter Wehrwein
Propofol: the drug that killed Michael Jackson
Peter Wehrwein
Yoga can help ease low back pain
Peter Wehrwein
Astounding increase in antidepressant use by Americans
Men's Health
Alzheimer’s disease in its later stages: Some advice for caregivers
Heart Health
MRIs may be safe for people with pacemakers and ICDs
Peter Wehrwein
How to survive a tornado
Peter Wehrwein
Kate Middleton’s pre-royal weight loss: stress, “brideorexia,” or the Dukan Diet?
Exercise & Fitness
How Boston Marathon runners can avoid hitting the wall
Heart Health
Statin use is up, cholesterol levels are down: Are Americans’ hearts benefiting?
Child & Teen Health
Play Ball: Will new rules for bats make baseball safer?
Peter Wehrwein
Update: Harmful radiation from Japan is not reaching the United States—no need for Americans to take potassium iodide
Cancer
Harmful radiation from Japan is not reaching the United States—no need for Americans to take potassium iodide
Cancer
Radiation risk in Japan: an update
Cancer
Radiation risk in Japan: understanding radiation measurements and putting them in perspective
Cancer
Potassium iodide pills and prevention of thyroid cancer from Japanese nuclear power plant
Peter Wehrwein
Oscar or not, The King’s Speech teaches about stuttering
Exercise & Fitness
Football and concussions: Old school, new school, and a conversation with Jerry Kramer
Peter Wehrwein
