On Aug. 1, David Hirsh was named Harvard Medical School co-director of the Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and ...

Researchers and data scientists from dozens of universities, hospitals, and other institutions across the United States have ...

Wendy Chung, the HMS Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics and chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s ...

During fetal development, the human brain generates an excess of neurons, most of which are eliminated shortly before and after birth. New research from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s ...

She greeted Amish neighbors from their rural community who arrived by horse and buggy with wounds for her father to stitch and dress. Rao’s parents’ dedication to the well-being of their neighbors ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. As SARS-CoV-2 seems to settle into the background of our lives, transitioning from an unprecedented crisis to a ...

Millions of Americans dance, either recreationally or professionally. How many of those who are ballroom dancing, doing the foxtrot, break dancing, doing the foxtrot, break dancing, or line dancing, ...

Eleven faculty members from Harvard Medical School have been newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

During his first year at Harvard Medical School, Rohan Minocha felt an urgency “in his own head” to decide on a clinical ...

Many of us have seen microscopic images of neurons in the brain — each neuron appearing as a glowing cell in a vast sea of blackness. This image is misleading: Neurons don’t exist in isolation. In the ...

During quiet waking, brain activity in mice suggests the animals are daydreaming about a recent image. Having daydreams about a recently viewed image predicted how the brain would respond to the image ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...