Tag: Drugs

  • Nation & World

    The art of self-healing

    “There is this culture that doctors are supposed to be perfect … and that culture makes it harder for us to ask for help.”

    Peter Grinspoon.
  • 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.

    Mark Namchuk.
  • Health

    High standards

    A study of metabolites in the urine of patients taking medical cannabis products shows that the actual THC or CBD content is often different from what they expect.

    CBD.
  • Science & Tech

    Taking the brain apart to put it all together again

    A new organ chip system from the Wyss Institute allows scientists to make new discoveries about the importance of blood vessels for our mental function.

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  • Health

    The changes in drug research, testing

    In December, Congress passed a bipartisan law to boost federal medical research spending and to ease the approval of new drugs. In a panel discussion, experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health talked about its pros and cons, including whether it will be funded, and whether the relaxed drug approval guidelines are…

  • Health

    Drug story

    Americans often have no idea whether they’re getting value for their prescription drug dollars, something that has to change if costs are to be reigned in in this country, according to a panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

  • Health

    New plan of attack in cancer fight

    Harvard Professor Martin Nowak and Ivana Bozic, a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics, show that, under certain conditions, using two drugs in a “targeted therapy” — a treatment approach designed to interrupt cancer’s ability to grow and spread — could effectively cure nearly all cancers.

  • Health

    Forward thinking on HIV

    A research team led by Martin Nowak has developed a technique for modeling the effects of various HIV treatments and for predicting whether the treatments will cause the virus to develop resistance.

  • Health

    Simplifying multidrug therapies

    As described in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a research team found that by studying how drugs interact in pairs, researchers can predict how larger combinations of drugs will interact.

  • Health

    Health care savings, naturally

    Though questions persist about whether natural remedies are as effective as their pharmacological cousins, one Harvard researcher is trying to understand the economic benefits people receive by relying on such traditional cures.

  • Health

    Size matters in drug delivery

    A new study led by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Massachusetts General Hospital has found that normalizing blood vessels within tumors, which improves the delivery of standard chemotherapy drugs, can actually block the delivery of larger nanotherapy molecules.

  • Nation & World

    Frank look at marijuana laws

    Prohibitions on marijuana use do more harm than good, and it’s time the federal government stepped away from the issue altogether, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told a crowd at Harvard Law School Oct. 18.

  • Health

    New hope for the cure

    For the 20 percent of patients with so-called triple-negative breast cancer, the outcome is bleak. Now, however, researchers from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Baylor College of Medicine have identified a critical molecular component to the disease, one that suggests potential therapies involving combinations of FDA-approved, readily available drugs.

  • Campus & Community

    HUPD Chief Riley discusses crime on campus

    HUPD Chief Francis Riley sits down with the Gazette to discuss crime and its prevention on campus.

  • Health

    Early marijuana use a bigger problem

    Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have shown that those who start using marijuana at a young age are more impaired on tests of cognitive function than those who start smoking at a later age.

  • Campus & Community

    Concerns over drugs, safety, health

    Harvard officials are meeting with House tutors and administrators this semester to clarify campus drug policies.

  • Campus & Community

    Few U.S. studies compare one drug to another

    Comparing medical treatments to find the best and the cheapest may be a pillar of U.S. healthcare reform efforts, but very little such research is being done, according to a report from Harvard Medical School published on Tuesday

  • Nation & World

    Calderón cites nation’s progress

    The election that put Felipe Calderón Hinojosa into office as the president of Mexico was a real squeaker — the closest vote in the modern history of his country. It took a couple of months for the federal electoral tribunal to certify him as the winner. Even then his chief opponent wouldn’t concede. An hour…