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Health
Self-diagnosis on Internet not always good practice
Online symptom checkers can often be wrong in both diagnosis and triage advice, but they still may be useful alternatives to phone triage services and Internet searches.
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Arts & Culture
More than help for their hair
Schlesinger Library receives letters from African-American servicewomen grateful for hair products that eased their lives while on assignment.
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Science & Tech
Electrifying invention can save young lives
Treatment with inhaled nitric oxide (NO) has proved to be lifesaving in newborns, children, and adults with several dangerous conditions. But the availability of the treatment has been limited by the size, weight, and complexity of equipment needed to administer the gas, and the therapy’s high price — until now.
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Campus & Community
Elkins receives named appointment at Center for African Studies
Professor Caroline Elkins, founding director of the Center for African Studies, has been named the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
What’s next for Your Harvard
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is planning the next events in its Your Harvard series of gatherings with alumni groups in Atlanta, Boston, and Toronto.
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Campus & Community
Getting to know the lab
High school students have a chance to see how science works, and a role in research, through the CRLS Marine Science Internship program at Harvard.
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Nation & World
‘One for the ages’
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage nationally is “one for the ages,” a Harvard legal analyst said, a judgment echoed by others.
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Nation & World
New face for the $10 bill
Three Harvard scholars talk about the role of symbolism in the announcement that a woman will replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.
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Health
Diagnosing Ebola in minutes
A new test can accurately diagnose the Ebola virus disease within minutes at the point of care.
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Campus & Community
Behind the findings
The student group Science in the News recently held a daylong conference as part of its mission to make the research behind important breakthroughs accessible and understandable to non-scientists.
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Arts & Culture
Vivid reminders of war
An exhibition by an Iranian artist recalls the heavy human cost of the long and brutal Iran-Iraq War.
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Health
Alone with evolution
Efforts by Harvard faculty to understand island evolution form the centerpiece of a new exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Nation & World
The art of political persuasion
New political science research says that, contrary to conventional wisdom, political attitudes are a consequence of political actions, rather than their cause.
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Health
Sequencing Ebola’s secrets
A global team from Harvard University, the Broad Institute, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and other institutions sequenced more than 200 additional Ebola samples to capture the fullest picture yet of how the virus is transmitted and changes over a long-term outbreak.
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Nation & World
A blessing to slow climate change
Scholars in theology, policy, and science weigh in on the pope’s call for sweeping action against climate change.
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Health
Another turning point for Obamacare
Panelists at the Harvard Chan School weighed the possible implications of the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
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Campus & Community
Incoming dean, rising School
A question-and-answer session with Frank Doyle, incoming dean of the rapidly growing Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Health
Coordinating against malaria
Leaders in the global fight to eradicate malaria are at Harvard this week for a leadership training course that explores many facets of the scientific underpinnings of the effort to eradicate malaria from the planet.
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Health
Cracking the egg
Mary Caswell Stoddard of Harvard’s Society of Fellows is bringing an interdisciplinary approach to her study of bird eggs.
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Science & Tech
Unveiling the ancient climate of Mars
The high seas of Mars may never have existed. According to a new study that looks at two opposite climate scenarios of early Mars, a cold and icy planet billions of years ago better explains water drainage and erosion features seen today.
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Health
Vital genes in fat production found
Scientists at Harvard Stem Cell Institute have found a way to both make more energy-burning human brown fat cells and make the cells themselves more active, a discovery that could have therapeutic potential for diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases.
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Arts & Culture
Complicated legacy
A Harvard Law School scholar reflects on the legacy of the 800-year-old Magna Carta.
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Campus & Community
Science, on the edge
Cambridge eighth-graders immersed themselves in science’s future during their visit to Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Compelled to create art
Unfulfilled as a lawyer, Robin Kelsey took a leap and began a career in photography and teaching. Today he leads Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture.
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Campus & Community
A new dean debuts
Douglas W. Elmendorf, former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, was introduced on Thursday as the new dean of the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Health
A dearth of nutrition in school lunches
About 200 people interested in improving the quality of meals served in America’s public schools gathered at Harvard to discuss topics ranging from getting wholesome food into schools to institutional barriers.
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Campus & Community
Elmendorf to lead Kennedy School
Douglas W. Elmendorf, former Harvard professor and director of the Congressional Budget Office, will become dean of the Harvard Kennedy School in January.
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Nation & World
Insights on where we learn
Four-day Harvard conference focuses on academic spaces, and how to improve them.
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Campus & Community
Harvard University: Year in Pictures 2014-2015
Harvard University captures some of its most memorable moments from the 2014-15 academic year.
