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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is well-known that a healthy lifestyle—not smoking, avoiding excess weight and getting regular exercise—can reduce the risk of heart disease. But what about people who have inherited gene variants ...

Inert, sleeping bacteria — or spores — can survive for years, even centuries, without nutrients, resisting heat, UV radiation, antibiotics and other harsh chemicals. How spores spring back to life has ...

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 ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor to the massive Indo-European language family. The population lived on the ...