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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Health
Your memory might benefit from a multivitamin
Can a simple multivitamin stave off age-related cognitive decline? A recent study says yes.
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Health
Start of new era for Alzheimer’s treatment
Neurologist explains why recent trial of the drug lecanemab may offer hope for those with deadly disease.
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Health
The brain on ketamine
It’s a powerful antidepressant, but science needs more answers on out-of-body experiences and other “dissociative effects,” says the first author Fangyun Tian.
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Campus & Community
Recruiting everyday superheroes for ‘cage match with agents of intolerance’
Though America could use a superhero, there’re none to be found, actor Tom Hanks told Harvard’s Class of 2023 on Thursday, instead, there’s a new generation to join the battle of truth and equality.
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Campus & Community
‘I realized that I couldn’t say no — not because of personal ambition, but given the moment.’
Harvard’s 29th president shares memories and lessons from his early life and career.
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Science & Tech
World ‘way off track’ from climate goal, Kerry says
Despite increasing momentum toward a green energy shift, the world remains far off track from emissions reductions that will limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Biden’s climate ambassador said.
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Nation & World
From Kyiv to Harvard and back
Harvard Scholars at Risk program allows physicians to continue their education during wartime.
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Campus & Community
After four generations, an emergency focus on climate change
Julia Malits will be the fourth generation of women in her family to go into medicine. She will be the first, though, to focus on emergency medicine and climate change.
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Campus & Community
Wonders never cease
Henry Cerbone spent his time at Harvard drawing on many intellectual threads in his effort to explore and understand the world.
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Science & Tech
How greatest biological discovery of 20th century got passed over
Harvard Professor Richard Losick highlights flawed, human side of science in his MSI Distinguished Achievement Award lecture.
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Campus & Community
Benita Kayembe takes hard look at hidden human cost of electric cars
Studying at Harvard Chan School has helped graduate Benita Kayembe understand the forces that shape the health of people around the world.
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Science & Tech
U.S. clean energy transition soon ‘to be on steroids’
Former Biden climate adviser Gina McCarthy brings insider’s view of status of battle against warming to Smith Center
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Arts & Culture
Turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful
Rebecca Solnit offers new view of remaking the world, turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful.
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Nation
Scars remain a decade later
Harvard runners and families vividly recall the chaos, shock, and horror of that day, and express gratitude for the response.
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Science & Tech
Desire to battle climate change rooted in childhood
Environmental science and engineering doctoral student grew up next door to family’s palm-oil refinery outside Bangkok.
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Health
Take it from the experts, a pet can change your life
The health benefits of animal companions have been supported by science but not society, with the disadvantaged facing similar barriers to pet ownership as they do in securing proper healthcare, experts said at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Monday.
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Health
Speaking from experience on what makes a global killer
COVID-19 isn’t going away, but one day may be as severe as the common cold, says epidemiologist Larry Brilliant.
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Science & Tech
Buying crucial time in climate change fight
Steven Wofsy explains how the satellite will spot global sources of methane emissions, which in many cases can be halted with relatively simple fixes.
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Health
20 years post-invasion, many Iraq veterans haven’t found peace
Harvard doctor who directs Home Base health program details experiences treating “invisible wounds,” including efforts to keep patients from isolating.
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Health
William Hanage on COVID lessons we haven’t learned
Harvard epidemiologist looks back and ahead.
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Nation & World
Prospect dim for Biden plan to bolster Medicare, health policy expert says
President Biden’s budget highlighted the projected Medicare shortfalls and proposed a solution, almost certainly dead on arrival in the Republican-held House. Health care policy expert John McDonough takes a look at what’s real and what’s politics.
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Science & Tech
Will ChatGPT supplant us as writers, thinkers?
Psychologist says the chatbot is impressive — and may offer insights into the nature of human intelligence once it “stops making stuff up.”
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Health
When heartbreak kills, blame the amygdala
When your heart breaks enough to kill you, it’s likely the amygdala — in the brain, not the heart — that is the culprit.
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Science & Tech
Combining forces to accelerate climate action here, there, now
Experts from Harvard and around the world embark on ambitious interdisciplinary projects that tackle climate change challenges head-on.
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Health
More mindfulness may be part of the answer for anxiety-ridden U.S.
Researcher hopes findings signal new treatment option amid surge in mental health cases.
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Health
Has first person to live to be 150 been born?
Harvard researchers reported that they can age and then restore youth to lab mice, using a gene cocktail that has already restored vision in mice.
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Health
Abortion law, suicide rate study adds to raging debate. But are we missing point?
A Harvard epidemiologist says that research tends to be weaponized on both sides, overshadowing the mental health needs of those with unwanted pregnancies.
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Health
A laugh a day keeps the doctor away?
No one knows why we do it, but it’s free, has no known side effects, and experts say it lifts spirits, lowers stress, makes us feel connected
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Health
Really need to start exercising but hate it? Just move
Health professionals say any regular activity is useful. If it’s been a while, ramp up ‘like a crockpot: low and slow’
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Arts & Culture
Life seeking answers at Giza, Nubia
Egyptologist George Reisner transformed the field, and a biography by Peter Der Manuelian explores not just his career, but his life during what some consider the golden age of Egyptian archaeology.
