Health

Study finds that modifying one factor can reduce risk of stroke, dementia, and late-life depression

70-year study finds widening gap despite longer life expectancy for both racial groups

Post-treatment physical activity narrows gap between patients and general population

ChemFORWARD, winner of Belfer Center award, explains how its database of industrial chemicals can help protect human, environmental health

Researchers develop at-home test to ID those at risk of Alzheimer’s years before symptoms appear

Artificial intelligence is up to the challenge of reducing human suffering, experts say. Are we?

Take our research-based quiz to learn more about how indoor air quality can harm or protect your health

Cravings are real, nutrition researcher says — but here’s why lumping sweets with alcohol, nicotine is a problem

Economist who studies technological change looks at public-private research partnership amid rising questions on federal funding

In talk on new book, Carl Zimmer theorizes key researcher’s discoveries were undercut by his personality

Psychologist who studied ‘medical gaslighting’ explains how caseload pressures contribute to the problem and when we should call it something else

Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk by 17 percent

Stem cell therapy safely restores cornea’s surface in clinical trial

Cardiovascular disease remains nation’s top cause of death, but patients seem too casual about prevention, experts say

And what you can do to get it

Health professionals view social contact as basic human need. Now researchers have tracked neurological basis for it.

Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide prevention efforts

Compounds show promise against drug-resistant infections, diseases

Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding

Physician-researcher sees promise in five-year ‘prospective payment’ experiment

Researchers develop innovative approaches to understand, target, disrupt uncontrollable growth of disease

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Arrival of large-language models sparking discussion of how use of technology may be broadened in patient care, and what it means to be human

‘How to Be Enough’ author on the difference between admiration and acceptance, the power of ‘2 percent kinder,’ and why values should come before rules

Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine

With recent leap in legalized sports betting and online options, public health experts outline therapeutic, legislative strategies  

Researchers who studied healthcare in dozens of facilities link accreditation to better collaboration and treatment and fewer deaths

HMS research IDs special class of cells that safeguard immunity and memory, and may one day treat neurodegenerative disease

Anesthetic growing in popularity as game-changing therapy for severe, treatment-resistant depression

Harvard research shows 1.7 million lack access to care