Featured series 
Tag: Health Care
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Health
Has pancreatic cancer met its match?
Frontline researcher sees newly approved medication as ‘critical first step’ toward transformation of care
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Health
For women in menopause, ‘not all healthy diets are equal’
Study comparing 11 eating patterns finds two clear paths to curbing weight gain
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Nation & World
You’re getting a divorce. What happens to the frozen embryo?
Panelists dig into fraught legal, ethical questions at heart of fertility cases
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Health
A genetic window on ‘All of Us’
Broad Institute researcher details U.S. biobank’s value as global resource in study of roots of disease, health
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Campus & Community
Helping to give birth to nation — and Harvard Med
School founder John Warren numbered among alumni who were part of revolutionary generation
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Health
Hearing breakthrough holds up
Gene therapy yields lasting gains for patients with inherited deafness: ‘How well it worked is really amazing.’
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Health
You don’t fight Parkinson’s without ‘raw moments.’ She shared them.
Chan School’s Sue Goldie felt ‘sheer responsibility’ to let journalist tell her story
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Nation & World
Aging independently, by design
Most older adults say they want to spend their golden years in their own homes. The reality is more complicated, says urban planning expert.
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Health
Which is worse, a soda or a beer?
Experts seek to clarify the health effects of alcohol and sugary drinks
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Health
In the grip of ‘horror and anger,’ Gawande grows more determined
As global health suffers, his focus on patient-first systems feels more urgent than ever
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Health
How immigrant doctors fill critical gap in U.S. healthcare system
Science historian explores roots of American physician shortage and how to fix it
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Health
Researchers link ultraprocessed foods to precancerous polyps
Results come amid rise in under-50 colorectal cancer cases
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Nation & World
Rising birth rates no longer tied to economic prosperity
New research by Claudia Goldin extends her work on how, why cultural changes around gender are driving down fertility in U.S., elsewhere
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Health
How sexism in medicine continues to endanger women’s health
Radcliffe symposium explores persistent bias in care today, from marginalizing heart disease symptoms to over-diagnosing anxiety
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Health
Speeding discoveries from lab to patients
10 new technologies tackling urgent challenges from autoimmune disease to cancer win funding from Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator
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Health
How to reverse nation’s declining birth rate
Health experts urge policies that buoy families: lower living costs, affordable childcare, help for older parents who want more kids
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Health
Dr. Robot will see you now?
Medical robotics expert says coming autonomous devices will augment skills of clinicians (not replace them), extend reach of cutting-edge procedures
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Health
For some, the heart attack is just the beginning
Harvard clinic uses mindfulness techniques to treat medically induced PTSD
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Health
Could lithium explain — and treat — Alzheimer’s?
Study offers new theory of disease and strategy for fighting it
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Health
‘Have a healthy respect that nature sometimes bites back’
It’s a bad year for ticks. Here are some precautions, and steps to take if you get bitten.
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Health
Why are women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s as men?
Researchers focusing on chromosomes, menopause
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Health
Cuts imperil ‘keys to future health’
Project has tracked lives, lifestyles, and well-being of cohorts over decades, led to insights, interventions in cardiovascular disease, cancers, nutrition
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Campus & Community
Providing medical care is important, but so is ensuring access
Morgan Byers grew up in a small Georgia community with big ideas of how to help
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Campus & Community
Abraham Verghese, physician and bestselling author, named Commencement speaker
Stanford professor whose novels include ‘Covenant of Water’ to deliver principal address May 29
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Health
Harvard startup creating a new class of antibiotics
Compounds show promise against drug-resistant infections, diseases
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Health
Eating citrus may lower depression risk
Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding
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Health
New study maps the ‘dental deserts’ in the U.S. — and there are lots of them
Harvard research shows 1.7 million lack access to care
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Health
Now that we have new ‘miracle’ diet drugs, what’s the point of exercising?
Experts say weight loss isn’t at top of list of health, longevity gains that come from activities like walking, hitting gym
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Health
Study pinpoints optimal timing for RSV vaccine during pregnancy
Five weeks before giving birth best transfers maternal antibodies to the fetus, say researchers
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Health
Warning for younger women: Be vigilant on breast cancer risk
Pathologist explains the latest report from the American Cancer Society
