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Health
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Wildfire smoke can harm heart and lungs even after the fire has ended
First study to fully assess its impact on all major types of cardiovascular, respiratory diseases
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Young researcher’s ALS attack plan is now a no-go
Career award among casualties of ‘terrifying’ cuts affecting lab of David Sinclair
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Miracle drugs don’t come out of nowhere
Healthcare, innovation experts say funding cuts to university labs will slow or stop basic research on which breakthroughs are built
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Vitamin D supplements may slow biological aging
Trial shows protection against telomere shortening, which heightens disease risk
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We know exercise is good for you. Why? He‘s working on it.
Expanding on decades of research, a new study seeks to pinpoint movement’s molecular benefits
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Do ultra-processed foods increase Parkinson’s risk?
New study finds people who consume higher servings are more likely to show early signs of the disease
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More evidence for power of exercise in study of colon cancer survival
Post-treatment physical activity narrows gap between patients and general population
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Is your shirt making you sick?
ChemFORWARD, winner of Belfer Center award, explains how its database of industrial chemicals can help protect human, environmental health
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Sniffing out signs of trouble
Researchers develop at-home test to ID those at risk of Alzheimer’s years before symptoms appear
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Machine healing
Artificial intelligence is up to the challenge of reducing human suffering, experts say. Are we?
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Sick again? Maybe your building is to blame.
Take our research-based quiz to learn more about how indoor air quality can harm or protect your health
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Is sugar addictive?
Cravings are real, nutrition researcher says — but here’s why lumping sweets with alcohol, nicotine is a problem
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U.S. innovation ecosystem is envy of world. Here’s how it got started.
Economist who studies technological change looks at public-private research partnership amid rising questions on federal funding
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Did a socially awkward scientist set back airborne disease control?
In talk on new book, Carl Zimmer theorizes key researcher’s discoveries were undercut by his personality
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You went to the doctor and came out feeling worse
Psychologist who studied ‘medical gaslighting’ explains how caseload pressures contribute to the problem and when we should call it something else
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A dietary swap that could lengthen your life?
Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk by 17 percent
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New hope for repairing eye damage once thought untreatable
Stem cell therapy safely restores cornea’s surface in clinical trial
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Cancer? No, thank goodness, it’s just high cholesterol.
Cardiovascular disease remains nation’s top cause of death, but patients seem too casual about prevention, experts say
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How much sleep do you need?
And what you can do to get it
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Food, water — and a friendly face
Health professionals view social contact as basic human need. Now researchers have tracked neurological basis for it.
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Older adults at highest risk for suicide, yet have fewest resources
Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide prevention efforts
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Harvard startup creating a new class of antibiotics
Compounds show promise against drug-resistant infections, diseases
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Eating citrus may lower depression risk
Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding
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Primary care has money problems. This might help.
Physician-researcher sees promise in five-year ‘prospective payment’ experiment
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Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer
Researchers develop innovative approaches to understand, target, disrupt uncontrollable growth of disease
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Cancer claims are everywhere. Which to trust?
Our research-based quiz can help
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It’s inoperable cancer. Should AI make call about what happens next?
Arrival of large-language models sparking discussion of how use of technology may be broadened in patient care, and what it means to be human
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The lie that taints perfectionism
‘How to Be Enough’ author on the difference between admiration and acceptance, the power of ‘2 percent kinder,’ and why values should come before rules
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Different day, different diagnosis?
Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine
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Gambling problems are mushrooming. Panel says we need to act now.
With recent leap in legalized sports betting and online options, public health experts outline therapeutic, legislative strategies
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One way to save lives in jails
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths
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The brain’s gatekeepers
HMS research IDs special class of cells that safeguard immunity and memory, and may one day treat neurodegenerative disease
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How exactly does ketamine work? New research offers insight.
Anesthetic growing in popularity as game-changing therapy for severe, treatment-resistant depression
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New study maps the ‘dental deserts’ in the U.S. — and there are lots of them
Harvard research shows 1.7 million lack access to care
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Now that we have new ‘miracle’ diet drugs, what’s the point of exercising?
Experts say weight loss isn’t at top of list of health, longevity gains that come from activities like walking, hitting gym
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Death, destruction — and trauma — of L.A. wildfires
Psychiatric epidemiologist discusses mental health toll from displacement and loss, the path forward for victims
