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  • Health

    Chronic sleep loss degrades nighttime performance

    Although the exact function of sleep remains unknown, sleep is clearly necessary for optimal cognitive performance, learning, and memory.

  • Campus & Community

    H1N1 vaccine clinic

    Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) has received a new shipment of H1N1 influenza vaccine and will distribute it at a clinic open to all members of the Harvard community under age 65.

  • Health

    Doubts about health care reform

    A group of Harvard scholars and visiting health care experts offers a pessimistic view of health care reform at a Harvard Medical School symposium.

  • Campus & Community

    It’s not easy being Big Green

    Surging Harvard men’s basketball team runs away from Dartmouth, 76-47, to continue best start in its 99-year history.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard China internship program open to Harvard College students

    The Harvard China Student Internship Program is accepting applications through Jan. 29.

  • Arts & Culture

    Defining themselves

    Two daguerreotypes recently acquired by the Harvard Art Museum’s Department of Photographs show a distinguished African-American man and a woman, countering stereotypes of the day.

  • Campus & Community

    Toxic Metal Found in Kids’ Jewelry Very Dangerous

    Cadmium is particularly dangerous for children because growing bodies readily absorb substances, and cadmium accumulates in the kidneys for decades.

  • Health

    Quantum (not digital) computing

    Study uses quantum computing to make calculations, in a breakthrough that could change myriad fields, including cryptography and materials science.

  • Health

    Light worsens migraine headaches

    Normal 0 0 1 701 4001 33 8 4913 11.1282 0 0 0 Ask people who suffer from migraine headaches what they do when they’re having attacks, and you’re likely…

  • Health

    Evolution and ailments

    The pressures of human evolution could explain the apparent rise of disorders such as autoimmune diseases and autism, researchers say. Some adaptations may even help such ailments persist.

  • Nation & World

    A new system for measuring poverty

    HKS researchers present new calculus for comparing poverty levels and changes over time, and between countries. The authors say the U.S. “war on poverty” produced significant gains in the 1990s compared with the ’80s.

  • Health

    Tracking our traits

    Researchers devise method to pinpoint key genetic variations under positive natural selection that may impact human health.

  • Health

    Tracking genetic traits over time

    Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history, but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they…

  • Health

    Coronary artery disease more severe in HIV-infected men, study finds

    Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found that relatively young men with longstanding HIV infection and minimal cardiac risk factors had significantly more coronary atherosclerotic plaques — some…

  • Nation & World

    HKS receives $20.5M for Asia studies

    Harvard Kennedy School receives $20.5 million gift to start program and institute pointed at key issues confronting rapidly growing Asian countries.

  • Campus & Community

    Swim School offering spring classes

    The Harvard Swim School, which provides swimming and diving lessons for adults and children (ages 5 and up), will offer Saturday morning classes (March 27-May 1) at Blodgett Pool and the Malkin Athletic Center.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard prof receives IIT-M distinguished alumnus award

    “Why do you read Shakespeare? And you don’t learn plumbing and electrical work because they are useful in daily life, do you?” responds Harvard University professor L Mahadevan when he’s asked about the relevance of mathematics in daily life.

  • Campus & Community

    Thompson wins writing grant

    Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson wins creative-writing fellowship to research her book project on how the Polynesians came to settle the Pacific region.

  • Campus & Community

    Mass. lags on homes for assisted living

    Assisted living has rapidly emerged over the past decade as the long-term care of choice for older Americans, but a Harvard Medical School study reveals that in Massachusetts, this type of housing is far less available than it is nationwide.

  • Campus & Community

    Atul Gawande’s ‘Checklist’ For Surgery Success

    Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for the New Yorker when he’s not at his day job at Harvard Medical School — relates a story about a man who came into an emergency room with a stab wound…

  • Campus & Community

    Ihor Ševčenko

    Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.

  • Campus & Community

    When a coach may help

    Although Kauffman is a psychologist, this is coaching, not therapy. Codirector of the new Institute of Coaching at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, she is working to solidify the growing body of evidence-based research supporting the relatively new field that is often defined by what it is not…

  • Campus & Community

    Panel finds no digestion problem specific to autism

    An advisory panel says there is no rigorous evidence that digestive problems are more common in children with autism compared with other children or that special diets work, contrary to claims by celebrities and vaccine opponents…

  • Campus & Community

    Couple donates $1m for nursing program

    Wellesley residents Burton and Gloria Rose recently presented Hebrew SeniorLife with a $1 million gift to support its Nursing Career Development Program, which allows certified nursing assistants who work for Hebrew SeniorLife to become licensed practical nurses…

  • Campus & Community

    Biotech firms, Hub hospitals strengthen ties

    Two Boston teaching hospitals are stepping up research into cardiovascular disease in separate programs that illustrate the deepening collaboration between academic medical centers and the biopharmaceutical industry.

  • Campus & Community

    More vaccine but fewer takers, H1N1 surveys indicate

    Pandemic influenza vaccine is getting much easier to find but more than half of American adults say they still don’t want it, and one-third of parents say they don’t want their children to get it either, according to two surveys.

  • Nation & World

    The Cold War observed

    Medical sociologist Mark G. Field, a specialist in Soviet health systems, uses a final Harvard seminar to recall a 20th century life in war, Cold War, peace, and scholarship.

  • Campus & Community

    Doctors Seek Aid From Business Schools

    Dr. Barton is one of 68 students enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Managing Health Care Delivery, a $22,000 non-degree program that launched in October and consists of three one-week courses spread out over nine months.

  • Campus & Community

    Skilled with scalpel and pen

    There’s not much downtime in Dr. Atul Gawande’s days. In between cases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the 44-year-old surgeon researches articles for The New Yorker magazine and his best-selling books, but sits down for a little Q&A with the Boston Globe.