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

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

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 ...

Laughter and greetings echoed in the lobby of the Veritas Science Center on Friday, March 20, as members of the Harvard ...

Federal drug pricing reforms intended to improve medication affordability are beginning to help, according to new research ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in Greece, Iosif Lazaridis shared his compatriots’ appreciation that they lived in “the crossroads of Europe and Asia,” past and present. Many people moved to Greece from the Balkans after ...

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 ...

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, ...