Laughter and greetings echoed in the lobby of the Veritas Science Center on Friday, March 20, as members of the Harvard Medical School Class of 2026 gathered to learn where they will continue their ...

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

Imaging studies of more than 27,000 adults link a healthier thymus on CT scans with a longer life and lower risks of ...

For years, researchers have suspected that a hormone called relaxin could be an effective treatment for certain ...

Next week, graduating Harvard Medical School MD and MD-PhD students will find out their residency placements and launch their ...

Federal drug pricing reforms intended to improve medication affordability are beginning to help, according to new research led by Harvard Medical School researchers in the Richard A. and Susan F.

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is ...

Sleep is one of the most essential human activities — so essential, in fact, that if we don’t get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real time while patient is still in the operating room. A new AI tool outperformed ...

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 ...

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 ...