Featured series 
Tag: Health Care
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Nation & World
NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development
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Science & Tech
Life-changing brain tech, but with a chilling caveat
Fellow’s paper draws from history to urge caution on brain-computer interfaces
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Health
Did a socially awkward scientist set back airborne disease control?
In talk on new book, Carl Zimmer theorizes key researcher’s discoveries were undercut by his personality
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Nation & World
How planned major U.S. foreign aid cuts expected to shake out abroad — and at home
Former diplomats see unnecessary deaths, lost opportunities for American corporations, workers, and diminished geopolitical influence
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Health
You went to the doctor and came out feeling worse
Psychologist who studied ‘medical gaslighting’ explains how caseload pressures contribute to the problem and when we should call it something else
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Campus & Community
Atul Gawande named featured speaker for Harvard Alumni Day
Acclaimed surgeon, writer, and public health leader will take the stage at Harvard’s global alumni celebration on June 6
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Health
New hope for repairing eye damage once thought untreatable
Stem cell therapy safely restores cornea’s surface in clinical trial
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Health
Cancer? No, thank goodness, it’s just high cholesterol.
Cardiovascular disease remains nation’s top cause of death, but patients seem too casual about prevention, experts say
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Nation & World
We’re already forgetting what 2020 was like
5 years later, sociologist urges us to confront lessons from pandemic
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Health
Primary care has money problems. This might help.
Physician-researcher sees promise in five-year ‘prospective payment’ experiment
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Health
Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer
Researchers develop innovative approaches to understand, target, disrupt uncontrollable growth of disease
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Health
It’s inoperable cancer. Should AI make call about what happens next?
Arrival of large-language models sparking discussion of how use of technology may be broadened in patient care, and what it means to be human
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Health
Different day, different diagnosis?
Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine
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Health
One way to save lives in jails
Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths
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Health
Aha moment in psych class clarifies childhood mystery
Inspires Susan Kuo’s research probing role of genetics in schizophrenia, autism
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Health
Should we be panicked about bird flu? William Hanage says not yet.
But he warns that there is real cause for concern, CDC should take much closer look
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Health
Gender-affirming care rare among U.S. youth, study says
Fewer than 1 in 1,000 transgender youth receive hormones or puberty blockers
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Health
Nature offers novel approach to oral wound care
Slug’s sticky mucus inspiration behind adhesive hydrogel that can seal wounds in wet environment
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Health
Time for a rethink of colonoscopy guidelines?
Change informed by new findings would help specialists focus on those most at risk, researcher says
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Health
Should pharmacists be moral gatekeepers?
‘The problem is not opioids,’ says author of ‘Policing Patients’ — it’s overdose, pain
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Health
The deadly habit we can’t quite kick
Actions by tobacco companies worry researcher even amid ‘dramatic decrease’ in smoking among young Americans
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Health
Why do gliomas tend to recur in the brain?
First look at the interplay between neurons and tumors sheds light on formation, spread
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Health
Probe the gut, protect the brain?
In fight against Parkinson’s and other disorders, two-way connection may someday lead to a breakthrough
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Health
How HIV research has reshaped modern medicine
Decades of scientific work turned the tide on a fatal disease and yielded insights into immunity, vaccines, and more
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Health
Rapid relief for the severely depressed? There’s a catch.
Ketamine carries risks, say researchers. Yet for some patients, it’s ‘the only thing that works.’
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Health
New frontiers in cancer care
In podcast, experts discuss breakthroughs in treatment, from genomic sequencing to AI, and how close we are to personalized vaccines
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Health
Too much sitting hurts the heart
Even with exercise, sedentary behavior can increase risk of heart failure by up to 60%, according to study
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Health
Cutting through the fog of long COVID
Researchers say new AI tool sharpens diagnostic process, may help identify more people needing care
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Health
Study shows vitamin D doesn’t cut cardiac risk
Outdoor physical activity may be a better target for preventive intervention, says researcher
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Health
Weight-loss surgery down 25 percent as anti-obesity drug use soars
Study authors call for more research examining how trend affects long-term patient outcomes
