Health and Medicine

When a patient with cancer is told the devastating news that their disease has spread, or metastasized, to a new...

While it is primarily a respiratory disease, COVID-19 infection affects other organs, including the brain. One of the first spectroscopic...

This Thanksgiving, it may be better to forget about even trying to pretend things are normal. Instead, Karestan Koenen suggested...

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health,...

Experts are working out a broad strategy to vaccinate Americans, with an eventual plan likely to prioritize health care and...

Harvard Medical School scientists report they have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye...

Public health officials have warned for months of the possibility of a serious post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases. If it...

Nobody was prepared for 2020, but a public talk on collective trauma in December 2019 was prescient. At Harvard Medical...

Mortality rates after cancer surgery declined for Black as well as white patients during a recent 10-year period, although the...

Obesity has been linked to increased risk for over a dozen different types of cancer, as well as worse prognosis...