Health and Medicine

Risk factors for heart health, such as smoking, unhealthy diets and minimal physical activity, may seem personal, but for people...

As COVID-19 deaths in the nation top 225,000, President Trump continues to downplay the severity of the pandemic, belittle government...

College students of color not only face a disproportionate risk of contracting COVID-19, they are particularly vulnerable to its psychological...

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are testing a new approach to fighting COVID-19, using a repurposed antiviral AIDS...

Medical experts called the idea that a coronavirus vaccine would allow life to immediately return to normal “magical thinking,” describing...

Look away, America. For your own good, look away. Everything will still be there when you come back. Even once...

With the coronavirus pandemic worsening again, the holidays are going to be a challenge this year, so a Harvard epidemiologist...

Third in a series that taps the expertise of the Harvard community to examine the promise and potential pitfalls of...

For COVID-19, the difference between surviving and not surviving severe disease may be due to the quality, not the quantity,...

Short bursts of physical exercise induce changes in the body’s levels of metabolites that correlate to an individual’s cardiometabolic, cardiovascular,...