This approach to drug repurposing is haphazard at best. It relies on patient reports of unexpected beneficial side effects or ...

Gordon Freeman, Harvard Medical School professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Arlene Sharpe, the ...

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year . . . It’s the hap-happiest season of all.” So says a classic song of the holiday season. But is it? The end-of-year holidays are certainly a happy time for ...

New study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that 34 percent think they have CTE, a condition it is not yet possible to ...

Harvard Medical School has become a powerful magnet of innovation and opportunity that brings people together to solve ...

Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener has won the 2024 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his ...

The findings, published in Nature Immunology, indicate that tumors edit the activity of multiple genes to avoid immune ...

Monique Tello is a physician and writer. She is originally from the Boston area, and graduated from Brown University and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She completed a combined ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Insect-borne disease transmission; scurvy; heat-killed vaccines Theobald Smith identifies ...

David Golan, the George R. Minot Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was appointed dean for research initiatives and global programs in August 2019. He previously served for 11 years as ...

These studies demonstrate that the convergence of political and social environment, structural inequities, and implicit and ...

“In conferring upon Dr. Joan Y. Reede the Cobb Lifetime Achievement Award, we celebrate not only her remarkable achievements ...