Lessons from the center of the state’s pandemic
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation sat down with Katharine Robb, a postdoctoral research…
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Vaccine protection against COVID-19 related issues
Most people with COVID-19 have relatively mild disease, but a subset of them develop severe pneumonia and…
F-1 Doctors help international students to U.S. med schools
Applying to medical school is an undeniably complicated process, but Azan Virji discovered that it’s even…
Wilderness medicine fellows return to lend a hand
Brian Strickland was high up in the Himalayas, walking around a rustic clinic a day’s hike from Mount Everest.…
A connection between ancestry and the molecular makeup of cancer
Questions about the genealogical imprint of tumors have hovered over cancer research since the completion of the…
How We Feel app pilots COVID prediction model
Among the pandemic’s biggest challenges for public health experts have been just how novel it is, how hard it’s…
Harvard Medical School uses telemedicine as a way forward
When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Harvard Medical School (HMS) to move learning online in March, faculty moved…
How to keep love alive in the midst of a pandemic
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease,…
Dramatic drops in ER visits likely led to uncounted deaths
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease,…
Uptick in heart attacks following 2016 presidential election
The hospitalization rate for acute cardiovascular disease events in a large southern California health system…