Featured series 
Tag: Harvard Medical School
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Science & Tech
On the clock
Researchers have built two machine learning models that gauge biological age and predict remaining lifespan in mice.
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Campus & Community
Preparing grad and professional Schools for remote fall
We look at how the different graduate Schools are handling online learning in the fall.
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Health
Each one, teach one
A Harvard Medical School student from Tanzania is working to help other international students navigate the process of getting into a U.S. medical school.
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Health
$30M commitment supports development of therapies for viral infections
Harvard University and AbbVie have announced a $30 million collaborative research alliance to study and develop novel therapies against emergent viral infections, with a focus on those caused by coronaviruses and by viruses that lead to hemorrhagic fever.
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Health
Medical immersion for students shifts online in pandemic
Students from as far away as Africa and Asia are benefiting from a COVID-prompted shift online of an HMS program that gives high schoolers a taste of life in the exam room.
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Health
Soothing advice for mad America
The anger you’re seeing in the nation and your neighborhood — call it pandemic rage — is not in your imagination, according to a McLean hospital psychologist, who explains where it comes from and how to fight it.
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Science & Tech
Quieting the storm
Acupuncture activates inflammation-regulating pathways, tames cytokine storm in mice.
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Health
Cheap, frequent COVID tests could be ‘akin to vaccine,’ professor says
Shifting the U.S.’s COVID-19 testing strategy to emphasize inexpensive, daily tests would break national transmission chains within weeks, an infectious disease testing expert said.
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Health
Promising progress on TB
A new drug regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis shows early effectiveness in 85 percent of patients in a cohort including many with serious comorbidities
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Health
Single-shot COVID-19 vaccine proves successful with primates
A single-shot COVID-19 vaccine is being developed by scientists led by a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center immunologist.
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Health
Vaccines may arrive in record time, but the virus has been faster
Vaccines that might protect against COVID-19 have entered phase 3 trials — the last step before regular approval in humans — in record time, but the virus has moved faster, experts say.
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Science & Tech
A speedier solution for molecular biomedical research
New quantum-classical algorithm brings nuclear magnetic resonance readings closer to “near-term” quantum computing.
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Campus & Community
Same old labs but not
Across Harvard’s campuses, non-COVID-19 work is resuming, labs are reopening, and scientists are settling into life in the “new normal.”
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Health
Health and care
HMS alum and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program founder Dr. Jim O’Connell has dedicated his life to helping the city’s most vulnerable citizens.
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Science & Tech
Is air conditioning helping spread COVID in the South?
Harvard researchers, drawing on insights from tuberculosis research, say air conditioners may be a factor in COVID-19’s spread down South, and relatively inexpensive germicidal ultraviolet lights a weapon.
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Science & Tech
Finding COVID clues in movement
Tracking mobility of individuals offers hints of whether a problem is rising or falling.
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Work & Economy
Americans are weary of lockdowns, but if COVID surges, what then?
If not a new lockdown, how do we slow the coronavirus in the future, researchers ask.
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Science & Tech
Sleep, death, and… the gut?
Fruit fly study finds death by sleep deprivation is preceded by the accumulation of unstable molecules known as reactive oxidative species in the gut.
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Health
Adding up the cost of pandemic health care
A new report published by the Brookings Institution estimates national health care spending for COVID-19 care and discusses its policy implications.
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Health
Loss of taste and smell is best indicator of COVID-19, study shows
Researchers deploying a smartphone app to 2.6 million users have determined that the loss of smell and taste are most predictive symptoms of COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
A new mission in Haiti
When Christophe Millien finishes his graduate studies at Harvard Medical School this month, he will return to Haiti to address the medical problem caused by uterine fibroids suffered by Haitian women.
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Health
Stroke, heart-attack cases plummet during pandemic
A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study showed dramatic drops in hospital visits for heart attacks and stroke, which likely led to uncounted deaths at home during the COVID crisis. Perhaps more troubling is the potential for long-term damage to decades’ work to catch conditions in their earliest, most treatable stages.
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Campus & Community
Hitting full stride in emergency medicine
Kirstin Woody Scott, Ph.D. ’15, M.D. ’20, was looking forward to running her 10th consecutive Boston Marathon before the pandemic put it on hold. Like any obstacle Scott has faced, she found a positive solution.
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Health
Vaccines can protect against COVID-19 in nonhuman primates, study says
Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has developed vaccines — currently being tested in animal models — that are designed to train the body’s immune system to recognize the virus swiftly upon exposure and respond quickly to disable it.
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Health
The mother of invention
COVID-19 pandemic spurs the creation of new, remote teaching methods at Harvard Medical School.
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Health
What pandemic dreams may come
Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychology Deirdre Barrett created an online survey to collect dreams of people during the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next
Pardis Sabeti’s lab is a research hub on infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
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Campus & Community
$16.5 million awarded to projects to fight COVID
MassCPR, a coalition of regional scientific institutions united to fight COVID-19, is awarding $16 million to 62 research projects with the promise to impact patient care within a year.
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Health
Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle
Wilderness medicine fellows were among those whose attention has been turned homeward, where they’re pitching in to fight COVID-19 in the ER.
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Health
Social distance makes the heart grow lonelier
Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.
