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Tag: Alvin Powell
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Health
New page in pandemic playbook
Risk assessment experts offer tips for balancing pandemic risks, as government restrictions ease.
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Health
Hints of a long COVID wave as Omicron fades
As Omicron fades, specialists seek answers for patients who can’t shake symptoms.
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Work & Economy
Summers says pandemic only partly to blame for record inflation
Inflation’s re-emergence leaves the guardians of the U.S. economy with a tricky balance to strike, cooling the economy with interest rate hikes while avoiding recession, Harvard’s Lawrence Summers said.
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Nation & World
Biggest hurdle to U.S. energy policy revamp? Millions of displaced workers
MIT-Harvard project is sending teams to explore how to ease the effects of the coming energy transition in parts of the U.S. that most heavily depend on fossil fuel-related industries.
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Health
Research suggests role for anthrax in fighting pain
In search for alternatives to opioids, Medical School researchers have hit on an unlikely candidate.
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Health
Hanage and other scientists keep close watch on Omicron subvariant
As Omicron rapidly recedes, some countries are seeing a new version of the variant, dubbed BA.2
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Health
Exploring why some remain sharp even as decades roll by
Harvard researchers study “super-aging” minds for clues to possible interventions for the rest of us.
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Health
Omicron optimism and shift from pandemic to endemic
With Omicron on the decline in some states, pandemic experts permit themselves hope, at least for the near term.
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Health
Omicron could peak in U.S. fairly soon. Maybe.
Experts say fast-spreading, less severe profile of Omicron is emerging as cases drop in South Africa but warn of challenging weeks ahead.
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Health
Remdesivir-resistant COVID case sets off few alarms
Harvard Med specialist says cases of remdesivir-resistant disease seem rare, may not become big issue.
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Health
Fauci speaks to the perilous moment in Harvard Chan School lecture
At Harvard, Anthony Fauci outlined early Omicron findings and urged more robust efforts to bring the pandemic under control, including global vaccination.
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Science & Tech
University seen as well-equipped to meet goals of ambitious institute
Scholars across University say Harvard is well-suited to the challenge owing to breadth, size of intellectual resources, experience.
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Health
Scientists race to define Omicron threat, worried about ‘surge upon a surge’
Early findings on immune escape and transmissibility, combined with danger posed by Delta, heighten urgency of vaccination, testing, other safety measures.
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Health
2 early vaccination surveys worse than worthless thanks to ‘big data paradox,’ analysts say
As governments and health officials navigate pandemic, researchers stress the danger that comes with bad information.
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Science & Tech
New University-wide institute to integrate natural, artificial intelligence
University-wide initiative made possible by gift from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.
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Health
Omicron ‘astonishing to behold,’ says Hanage
With Omicron landing in the U.S. this week, Harvard epidemiologist William Hanage reviewed what we know and the many things still unknown about the fast-moving coronavirus variant.
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Health
Long COVID sufferers face physical pain, physician skepticism
Long COVID’s laundry list of ills include skepticism and doubt often conveyed in the doctors’ office.
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Nation & World
Separating signal from noise at COP26
COP26, while a mixed bag, maintained progress toward global climate goals, says Rob Stavins.
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Health
Chess is more than a game for researcher focused on brain health
The Chan School’s David Canning wants to follow the cognitive performance of chess players over time.
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Health
Pills could prove COVID game changer
Harvard specialists say COVID-19 pills may cut hospitalizations and deaths and offer big boost to nations struggling with low vaccination rates.
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Nation & World
Chance of sun in Michael Pollan’s climate forecast
Michael Pollan says odds of saving the planet aren’t great but people can change their behavior, sometimes rapidly.
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Health
Do we need to draw you a picture? Yes, or maybe a satiric cartoon
Wrestling with a health care conundrum: how to get people to listen?
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Nation & World
Heat rising, along with urgency and hope, as climate summit nears
Despite dire warnings of climate scientists, Harvard climate experts are encouraged by recent progress to fight it.
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Health
In a war zone, COVID isn’t the only health problem
A Chan School panel details need for broader health campaigns that also include various vaccines in conflict areas.
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Health
New thinking on aspirin and colorectal cancer needs dose of nuance, expert says
The Gazette spoke with Andrew Chan, director of cancer epidemiology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, about the new thinking around aspirin.
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Health
Viewing climate change as a human health problem
Renee Salas, an ER doctor and assistant professor of medicine, addressed questions about a new climate and health report from The Lancet.
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Science & Tech
More climate research, teaching to make greater impact
The new vice provost for climate and sustainability talks about upcoming efforts to boost Harvard’s response to challenges presented by climate change.
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Science & Tech
No one outruns death, but hunter-gatherers come closest
Our sedentary tendencies may be robbing us of a key benefit of physical activity.
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Science & Tech
Deploying AI against colon cancer
Harvard-led research signals life-saving potential for artificial intelligence in fight against colon cancer.
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Campus & Community
Sailing alone, under the stars, and fast
Harvard Chan School risk analysis expert sailed to Bermuda solo in June, managing more than 635 miles over roughly five days.
