Featured series 
Tag: Health Care
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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
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Health
‘Heartbreaking’ encounter inspired long view on alcohol
One encounter changed everything for researcher who hopes to help mothers and families detect and treat the effects of dangerous drinking
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Health
Suicide among female doctors gets a closer look
Epidemiologist discusses research, shrinking gap between rates of male, female physicians, what can be done
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Health
Implantable device responds to opioid overdose
Without assistance, it allows for precise administration of naloxone at the moment it is needed
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Work & Economy
More money, empowerment — and less chance of domestic abuse
Study examines benefits for working women who help produce Rwandan specialty coffee
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Nation & World
Viewing Ukraine’s war-torn health care through a personal lens
Ukrainian American physicians from Harvard Medical School and affiliated hospitals gathered virtually Tuesday to share experiences with the war.
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Health
Closing the gap
Mortality rate after cancer surgery drops during 10-year period, but gap persists between Black and white patients.
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Health
How a doctor learned to become a caregiver
Harvard Professor Arthur Kleinman’s wife, Joan, began to struggle with a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease at 59.
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Campus & Community
Harvard, HUCTW agree on new contract
Harvard University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers announced today that they have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract to provide HUCTW employees with an annual pay increase program, changes in health plan design, and other constructive policy initiatives.
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Health
Putting health in context
Panelists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined social disparities that make some people more likely to end up sick than others.
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Campus & Community
Changes to Harvard health care
In a question-and-answer session, four members of Harvard’s benefits committee explain changes to the University’s health care plans for next year.
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Arts & Culture
Summertime, and the reading is easy
A look at what Harvard faculty members will be reading in their downtime this summer.
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Nation & World
Health care hitches
While the technical glitches on the online rollout for the Affordable Care Act might look bad from a political perspective, a Harvard Kennedy School professor argues that they’re equally bad from a health care perspective.
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Health
Lower health care costs may last
A slowdown in the growth of U.S. health care costs could mean a savings of as much as $770 billion on Medicare spending over the next decade, Harvard economists say.
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Campus & Community
Finalists in health, science challenge
Harvard University announced the selection of eight finalist teams in the inaugural Deans’ Health and Life Sciences Challenge on April 4.
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Nation & World
Tech solutions for Tanzanian health care
A group of Harvard computer science students traveled to Tanzania in January to lend their programming skills to the mission of improving health care there. The trip included founders and the first cohort of fellows for a new program begun by the student group Tech in the World.
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Nation & World
Health care could swing voters
A new analysis of 37 national opinion polls conducted by 17 survey organizations finds that health care is the second most important issue for likely voters in deciding their 2012 presidential vote. This is the highest that health care has been ranked as a presidential election issue since 1992.
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Campus & Community
High drama
In a talk at the Boston Public Library’s Honan-Allston Branch, the final event in the John Harvard Book Celebration, Linda Greenhouse ’68 said President Obama’s health care law is constitutional and should stand.
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Nation & World
Freedom’s just another word
The poor often have too many basic choices, which can sap their resources and energy, economist says.
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Health
2009 flu could have echoed 1918
David Butler-Jones, Canada’s chief public health officer, believes that the relatively mild 2009 global flu outbreak might have been as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu that killed millions, if not for improved scientific, public health, and medical practices.
