Featured series 
Tag: Health Care
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Health
Early breakfast could help you live longer
Study finds mealtimes may impact health, longevity in older adults
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Health
‘Surprise and relief’ from homeless patients: ‘This works for me’
Doctors report ‘fascinating and counterintuitive’ results delivering healthcare to hard-to-reach population via telehealth
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With charms to soothe savage back pain
Music appears to decrease anxiety, discomfort in ER patients, study finds
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Health
Facing life-or-death call on who gets liver transplants
Surgeons, medical professionals apply risk calculus that gets even more complex for patients with drinking problems
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Health
Weight loss drugs protect heart patients, study suggests
40% lower risk of hospitalization or death
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Racing against antibiotic resistance
Scientists fear funding cuts will slow momentum in ongoing battle with evolving bacteria
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Health
What makes us sleepy during the day?
Research links by-products of steroid hormone to excessive daytime sleepiness
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Health
Analysts highlight a school-sized gap in mental health screening
Less than a third conduct screenings, according to survey of more than 1,000 principals
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Health
Mediterranean diet offsets genetic risk for dementia, study finds
Greatest benefit for those with highest predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease
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Health
Physicians embrace AI note-taking technology
‘There is literally no other intervention in our field that impacts burnout to this extent’
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Nation & World
Setback in the fight against pediatric HIV
Funding cut disrupts effort to liberate Botswana patients from antiretroviral regimen
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Health
Brain implants that don’t leave scars
Harvard startup is developing a softer device to monitor head injuries
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Health
‘Hopeful message’ on brain disease
Researcher Sanjula Singh has looked at stroke, dementia, late-life depression for years, finds lifestyle changes make big difference
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Health
A setback to research that offered hope for fibrous dysplasia patients
Promising HSDM research into the rare and debilitating disease was halted due to withdrawal of federal funding. The research had implications for treating a range of skeletal conditions and broader medical applications.
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Nation & World
Foundation for U.S. breakthroughs feels shakier to researchers
Funding cuts seen as threat to nation’s status as driver of scientific progress
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Work & Economy
Working through pain? You’re not alone.
Researchers use Dutch tool to pursue full scale of functional limitations in U.S. labor force
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Campus & Community
‘Learning without a net’
Here are 5 students doing summer research with faculty in topics from heat mortality to epigenetics, Legionnaires’ disease to anorexia
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Health
Overlooked climate-change danger: Wildfire smoke
Researchers rush to get hands around multiple serious health risks as blazes mount — and get bigger
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Science & Tech
Snapshots from front lines of federal research funding cuts
Faculty detail scramble to save work and talented researchers, both those in labs and in pipeline
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Health
HIV resurgence
Epidemiologist Jeff Imai-Eaton warns funding cuts could reverse decades of gains in prevention, care
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Health
Taking the measure of legal pot
Researchers detail what we know about consequences for revenue and health — and what we still need to find out
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Health
Riskier to know — or not to know — you’re predisposed to a disease?
‘DNA isn’t a crystal ball for every kind of illness’ but potential benefits outweigh fears, says geneticist
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Health
As wave of dementia cases looms, Law School looks to preserve elders’ rights
Academic experts seek improvements that could protect decision-making authority and autonomy
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Health
Who decides when doctors should retire?
Expert in law, bioethics sees need for cognitive testing amid graying of nation’s physician workforce
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Health
Unlocking the promise of CAR-T
Research on multiple fronts seeks to expand impact of a cancer therapy that has left patients and doctors awestruck
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Health
An exercise drug?
Researchers hope to harness the cognitive benefits of a workout for Alzheimer’s patients with mobility issues
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Health
What might cancer treatment teach us about dealing with retinal disease?
Joan Miller’s innovative thinking led to therapies for macular degeneration that have helped millions, made her better leader
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Health
Hope for sufferers of ‘invisible’ tinnitus disorder
Researchers develop way to objectively measure common malady, which may improve diagnosis, help in developing therapies
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Health
What your brain score says about your body
Simple tool can be used to identify risk factors for cancer and heart disease too, says new study
