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 ...

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 ...

The future of federally funded research at Harvard Medical School — supported by taxpayers and done in service to humanity — remains uncertain. Learn more. The first large-scale study of how often ...

First complete connectome of the fruit fly central nervous system details all connections between neurons in the brain and spinal cord equivalent. The work reveals that many fruit fly behaviors are ...

Amid unprecedented challenges to research and higher education at Harvard University and across the United States this year, Harvard Medical School scientists continued to push the boundaries of ...

The future of federally funded research at Harvard Medical School — supported by taxpayers and done in service to humanity — remains uncertain. Learn more. A new analysis led by researchers at Harvard ...

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 ...

Patient deaths increased in the emergency departments of hospitals acquired by private equity firms compared to similar hospitals, a nationwide study has found. Researchers linked the increase in ...

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 ...

A new study in mice describes how the brain rapidly and efficiently increases blood flow to active areas where oxygen and nutrients are needed most. The work shows that the brain relies on a ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...