But this evolution toward the free market has pros and cons for doctors and patients alike, highlighting an urgency to ...

This award, presented by the HMS Office of Human Resources, was established in 2002 by the Brown family to honor Dolores J.

Meet the Harvard Medical School Office of Communications and External Relations. Our staff of strategic communications specialists, writers, editors and designers have decades of collective experience ...

A nerve neglected in today’s era of molecular and genetic analysis has yielded a surprising secret. A handful of neurons control breathing in a fine-tuned but powerful way, scientists have discovered ...

When Vijay Sankaran was an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the mid-2000s, one of his first clinical encounters was with a 24-year-old patient whose sickle cell disease left them with ...

Trauma and nightmares Nightmares can arise for a number of reasons—stress, anxiety, irregular sleep, medications, mental health disorders—but perhaps the most studied cause is post-traumatic stress ...

Although the brain needs glucose, too much of this energy source can be a bad thing. A 2012 study in animals by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles indicated a positive ...

A number of brain regions are involved in reading and comprehension. Among them are the temporal lobe, which is responsible for phonological awareness and for decoding and discriminating sounds; Broca ...

Many of us have seen microscopic images of neurons in the brain — each neuron appearing as a glowing cell in a vast sea of blackness. This image is misleading: Neurons don’t exist in isolation. In the ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...

The first time geneticist George Church visited Siberia was the first summer the permafrost melted. Permafrost by its nature is supposed to stay frozen year-round, but in a marker of encroaching ...

Four years after the first cases of an unusual pneumonia appeared in Wuhan in December 2019, nearly 7 million people have lost their lives to COVID-19, and some 65 million more continue to struggle ...