Health

Is your cholesterol too high based on latest guidelines?

Study flags elevated LDL levels of 1 in 3 Americans without history of heart disease as major miss for prevention
Why you should care about first new FDA-approved sunscreen ingredient in 20 years

HMS dermatology professor Hillary Tsibris explains why you should care
A genetic window on ‘All of Us’

Broad Institute researcher details U.S. biobank’s value as global resource in study of roots of disease, health
She studies cell lineage in the eye. Now she’s leaving research lineage of her own.

Award-winning biologist Connie Cepko, who advanced work on vision-threatening disease, passes the torch to scientific successors

Part of the Profiles of Progress series
NFL players 4 times more likely to die of brain disease, study finds

Despite living longer overall, neurodegenerative mortality risk dramatically elevated
Losing sleep is bad for individuals. Communities, too?

Researchers look to fill knowledge gap, push for studies of what happens to health of groups when major events disrupt rest

Diving into the gene pool

Maryellen Ruvolo, professor of anthropology, specializes in the analysis of human and primate family trees using DNA data, a subfield of molecular evolution. She is probably best known for her…

March 18, 1999
Electromagnets used in treating depression

Recent studies by Harvard researchers at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., have enlarged the body of knowledge about a promising, though still experimental, treatment for a variety of psychiatric disorders.…

March 19, 1998
Aging Brains Lose Less Than Thought

It’s considered a dreaded inevitability of growing old—you lose thousands of brain cells every day. This idea has been a centerpiece of scientific dogma and popular lore for 40 years.…

October 3, 1996