Amid rapid changes that are causing an upheaval in global health, Harvard Medical School community members gathered to ...
A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...
The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work leading to curative genetic ...
A pair of new studies indicates that Medicare’s Oncology Care Model, a major test of value‑based payment in cancer care, was more successful than early evaluations suggested. The new analyses show ...
Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...
A new AI model called popEVE can predict how likely each variant in a patient’s genome is to cause disease. The team is testing popEVE in clinical settings to see if it can speed accurate diagnoses of ...
Luca Maini, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, studies competition and regulation in pharmaceutical markets. He has studied how national ...
The HMS MD-PhD program in conjunction with Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Leder Human Biology and Translational Medicine (LHB) Program introduced student Grand Rounds in 2008-09. These sessions ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research in mice identifies protein responsible for regulating gut movement in response to pressure, exercise, and inflammation. The findings can inform precision-targeted treatments for intestinal ...
Alvin Francis Poussaint, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, at Harvard Medical School, died on Feb. 24 at age 90 after a short illness. He died peacefully at home in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, with ...