Research in mice reveals a new way that brain plasticity is controlled — providing a long-awaited insight into how critical ...

A clinical trial of more than 3,600 patients evaluated for chest pain showed that fatty liver disease was linked to nearly ...

Despite a brief downpour, the sun shone on the newest graduates of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine on May 28. The new physicians and dentists received their diplomas on ...

The Harvard Medical School Quad was filled with excitement as family, friends, and colleagues joined more than 300 graduating ...

Researchers have advanced colon-on-a-chip models to deepen studies of inflammatory bowel disease. Chips included two types of ...

Commitment to leadership in nutrition education began in 1942 and continues to evolve with requirements and electives for students, trainees, professionals, and the public.

The Visiting Students Program at Harvard Medical School (HMS) offers eligible medical students the opportunity to complete a visiting clerkship at one of the Harvard-affiliated hospitals. The HMS ...

Harvard Medical School has a special tradition of lowering the HMS flag atop the Gordon Hall of Medicine to half-staff in memory of current members of the HMS community. An email is sent from the dean ...

New research from Harvard Medical School researchers at Hebrew SeniorLife suggests that delirium — the most common postoperative complication in older adults — is associated with a 40 percent faster ...

Love has been the source of ceaseless fascination since antiquity. Artists have tried to capture its beauty and darkness in books, paintings, and songs. Behavioral scientists have explored love as a ...

When Perry Cohen experienced an urgent health concern earlier this year, his town’s only care provider who specializes in working with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) patients ...

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 ...