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Tag: Harvard Medical School
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Campus & Community
Studying COVID-19 in real time
How some Harvard professors are integrating the coronavirus crisis into their curricula.
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Nation & World
Obama: In trying times, truth first
During a virtual seminar Thursday, more than 750 officials from 400 U.S. cities got advice from top executives who led the nation’s last public health crisis, the Ebola epidemic, on how to help their cities cope and prepare for reopening in the coming weeks or months.
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Health
Hope for managing hospital admissions of COVID-19 cases
A top emergency-preparedness official with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital says recent modeling shows social distancing is working to flatten the curve.
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Health
Epidemiologist says COVID-19 may be more infectious than thought
Efforts to protect nursing home patients should include moving residents from facilities and increased testing, said Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina.
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Nation & World
The collective effort
Harvard students, alumni, faculty, and staff from the nationwide “To Serve Better” project weigh in on how coronavirus is affecting their corner of the country, and the work they do.
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Campus & Community
Mobile clinics finding their place in pandemic
Harvard Medical School’s Family Van co-hosted a webinar to discuss what the mobile clinics have to offer during the coronavirus pandemic — and it’s a lot.
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Nation & World
In prisons, a looming coronavirus crisis
Experts from across the University are calling for state officials to limit the number of people in jails and prisons in an effort to stop the virus’ spread.
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Campus & Community
Zooming through the grad Schools
A look at how virtual classes are going at Harvard’s graduate Schools, whose needs and missions are different from the College’s.
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Campus & Community
University community rallies to deal with COVID-19 crisis
Harvard faculty, students, researchers, and staff are working with hospitals, first responders, state and city leaders, and many more across Greater Boston to support the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Health
Organized to fight the pandemic
The newly formed Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness aims to address both the immediate and long-term implications of the coronavirus crisis. The effort, led by Harvard Medical School, will work to stem the tide of COVID-19 but, more importantly, to lay the groundwork for dealing with future pandemics.
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From the lab to COVID front lines
Aldatu Biosciences, a company born in Harvard’s labs and nurtured in its entrepreneurial ecosystem, helps the region ramp up COVID-19 testing.
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Health
New blood test can detect wide range of cancers
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy.
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Health
A multipronged attack against a shared enemy
As the pandemic intensifies, Harvard scientists work to find a treatment.
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Campus & Community
An option to serve in COVID-19 fight
Harvard Medical School is offering this year’s graduating students the option to receive their diplomas early so that, if they choose, they can be deployed into hospitals to help with COVID-19 patients.
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Harvard Medical School students mobilize
To help in that effort, within days of the escalation of infections in Massachusetts, hundreds of Harvard Medical School students began mobilizing to provide voluntary support to clinicians.
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Campus & Community
From envelopes to emails
For the first time, the annual Harvard Medical School Match Day celebration went virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has shifted Quad classes online and caused clinical clerkships to be suspended until March 31.
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Nation & World
Will inequality worsen the toll of the pandemic in the U.S.?
America’s ragged social safety net and large inequity between rich and poor may set it up for a rough road ahead as it deals with the coronavirus epidemic, a Harvard Chan School professor said Tuesday.
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Health
Harvard coronavirus survey: How’re we doing? Not bad so far
An ongoing survey by researchers at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is examining public attitudes toward the coronavirus pandemic.
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Campus & Community
At graduate Schools, reinvention on the fly
Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools have had to adjust quickly to the new realities brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nation & World
Getting ready for the inevitable
Harvard Medical School faculty members and their colleagues at Partners In Health are collaborating with local communities and national governments to help prepare some of the world’s most vulnerable people for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Campus & Community
Scaled-down labs felt ‘this special responsibility’
Harvard scientists put their research on hold for safety, and see chance to help hospitals with precious gear.
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Campus & Community
Homeward bound
To protect the health of the Harvard Medical School community, first-year Medical and Dental School students, as well as second- and third-year dental students, were asked to vacate their rooms in Vanderbilt Hall. Research laboratories will also be shuttered by 5 p.m. on March 18.
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Health
COVID test debacle: ‘We hoped it would go away before it reached us’
Massachusetts may need 1.4 million COVID-19 tests and ramp up to tens of thousands given a day, Harvard experts said.
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Health
Designing a coronavirus vaccine
In response to this public health crisis, researchers in the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital are on the front lines of developing a vaccine specially targeted toward older populations
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Health
Vital challenge, for those always ready
With cases of COVID-19 multiplying, a Massachusetts General Hospital preparedness expert discusses existing challenges and the ways first responders can get ready to meet the new coronavirus.
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A virus that targets the elderly
Harvard-affiliated doctors try to safeguard nursing-home patients from COVID-19 by reducing number of visitors, adding health screenings.
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Health
Helping hands bring laser light to Armenia
Lilit Garibyan has brought her medical skills back to her native Armenia, decades after her family fled during war with neighboring Azerbaijan.
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Health
So how bad is coronavirus in U.S.? We don’t know yet
A rapid expansion of coronavirus testing is needed to understand the extent and nature of the epidemic’s track in the U.S., Harvard experts said.
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Health
Endurance athletes found to have enlarged aortas
A new study has found that like their younger counterparts, a high percentage of endurance athletes aged 50 to 75 years have an enlarged aorta. Now researchers must determine if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
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A ‘call to duty’ to battle a deadly global threat
Boston-area researchers are collaborating as part of an international partnership working on a response to the new coronavirus.
