New research in fruit flies suggests that a decreased desire to eat protein can serve as the earliest known warning sign of ...

If you had told Altaf Saadi when she was an MD student at Harvard Medical School that she would one day direct the office ...

Third-year Pathways MD student Emilie Baxter spent her first-year summer break at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in ...

Physician-executive, internist, and public health innovator Monica Bharel will deliver the keynote speech at the Harvard ...

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For most of human history, discovering a new therapy was a game of chance. It was only in the late 20th century that we started to design drugs rationally—primarily by translating scientific knowledge ...

We invite you to apply and join our community of educators who are transforming health. Applications for those entering the Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology program in 2026 are now open. The ...

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Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty has won The Brain Prize 2026 for his career-long research on our sense of ...

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 ...

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School details the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain’s protective layers — the meninges — and cause brain infection ...