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Tag: Harvard Medical School
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Health
Exercise may help make heart younger
In a new study performed in mice, Harvard researchers found that exercise stimulates the heart to make new muscle cells, both under normal conditions and after a heart attack.
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Science & Tech
Cells like we’ve never seen them before
“This is the miracle of being able to see what we have never been able to see before,” said Harvard Medical School professor and study co-author Tomas Kirchhausen.
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Health
When science meets mindfulness
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School are examining how mindfulness meditation may change the brain in depressed patients.
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Health
Expert advice for reducing obesity: Take the blame out of it
Fatima Cody Stanford, a leading expert on obesity, is exploring the impact of behavioral and environmental factors in the complex processes of weight regulation.
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Science & Tech
Microbes by the mile
Exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History shows the beauty and utility of microbes.
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Health
We’re in the dark on dietary supplements. She’s working to change that.
A Harvard epidemiologist is working on two trials aimed at providing some clarity on the effects of dietary supplements.
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Health
Pulling our punches in opioid fight
Shelly F. Greenfield of McLean Hospital provides a recap of a Boston summit aimed at generating ideas for attacking the opioid epidemic.
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Health
Vexing health problems can be solved, Gawande believes
Tackling complex issues such as opioid addiction, gun violence, and uneven access to medical care seems daunting, but surgeon and author Atul Gawande says history shows that over time, the nation can solve its public health challenges.
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Health
What’s another hour of lost sleep? For some, a hazard
An interview with Jeanne Duffy, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a sleep researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on links between sleep and health.
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Health
Hip replacement needed a ‘light bulb moment.’ Getting there was painful.
In his new book, “Vanishing Bone,” Harvard surgeon William Harris described setbacks on the path to breakthrough collaboration that corrected a major problem in hip replacement surgery.
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Health
When love and science double date
They suggest that couples share goals and aspirations, stay curious about each other, and, for pity’s sake, go out once in a while.
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Science & Tech
Expanding the reach of the bionic leaf
With eye on population growth, postdoc Kelsey Sakimoto teamed up with “bionic leaf” developers on a project to aid agriculture in developing world.
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Health
Researchers probe stomach surgery’s ‘miracle’ secrets
Harvard researchers are bringing an engineer’s perspective to a medical mystery — how does gastric bypass surgery do so much more than reduce weight?
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Health
Driven by ego? This book’s for you
Harvard-trained psychiatrist Mark Epstein talks about his new book, “Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself.”
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Campus & Community
Harvard professor among 3 to receive up to $70M for Alzheimer’s research
A Harvard professor is among those slated to receive $70 million in NIH funding over five years to launch the Alzheimer’s Clinical Trials Consortium, which will accelerate and expand the disease’s therapeutic research.
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Health
When the doctor’s away
When fill-in physicians take over care in hospitals temporarily, mortality levels remain stable, a new study says.
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Science & Tech
Opioid deaths jump
A new Harvard study shows people who end up in the hospital due to an opioid-related condition are four times more likely to die now than they were in 2000.
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Health
For family, doctors, life and death were inseparable
Surgeons at MassGeneral Hospital for Children faced a wrenching decision in a procedure to separate twins conjoined at the abdomen and pelvis.
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Health
New clues to Alzheimer’s disease
McLean Hospital researchers have found energy dysfunction in the cells of late-onset Alzheimer’s patients, which may be a piece of the disease’s complex puzzle.
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Nation & World
Taxing advanced degrees
Nobody enters a Ph.D. program to earn money. Students have long known that preparing for a career in research or academia often means trading financial reward today for the chance to tackle…
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Health
Greater health benefit from exercise than previously reported
A new study finds that physical activity has an even larger health benefit than thought in reducing the risk of death in women.
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Nation & World
Beyond the Nobel Peace Prize
Two Harvard Law clinicians and four students took part in negotiating the treaty banning nuclear weapons as partners of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which recently received the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Nation & World
‘Stay engaged’ to aid global health
The U.S. needs to remain an active leader in addressing global health problems both for its own sake and for that of populations around the world.
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Health
Invisible world comes to light
Harvard Museum of Natural History brings art and science together as two Harvard scientists capture the “invisible,” and stunningly beautiful, life force that is everywhere: microbes.
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Health
Checklists are boring, but death is worse
Systems aren’t sexy, but they save lives, says Harvard Medical School Professor and author Atul Gawande during HUBweek events in Boston.
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Health
Research rebuts idea that epidurals prolong labor
A study by BIDMC has found that long-standing concerns on the effects of epidurals on the second stage of labor may be misguided and out of date.
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Science & Tech
Putting tomorrow’s doctors on opioid alert
Gov. Charlie Baker joined HMS faculty members in discussing the opioid crisis and the role physician education must play in fighting it.
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Health
Feeling woozy? Time to check the tattoo
Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises.
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Science & Tech
Not a popularity contest
New research from faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School finds that a majority of college freshmen believe others have more friends than they do, when they often don’t.
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Nation & World
Harvard doctor recalls fall of Saigon
Harvard doctor Bertram Zarins recalls watching copters being pushed off his ship, operating on some of the last people to leave Vietnam as Saigon fell.
