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 ...

Wendy Chung, the HMS Mary Ellen Avery Professor of Pediatrics and chief of the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, received the Scientific Achievement Award from the American ...

During fetal development, the human brain generates an excess of neurons, most of which are eliminated shortly before and after birth. New research from Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s ...

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 ...

Although it can’t compose poetry or solve equations, this extensive network uses the same chemicals and cells as the brain to help us digest and to alert the brain when something is amiss. Gut and ...

First-in-class medication halts HIV replication by disrupting a critical piece of the viral machinery — the capsid protein shell that protects the vial genome. Twice-a-year injection removes ...

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 ...

Over the past several years, scientists have generated intriguing insights suggesting that variations in gut microbiomes—the collections of bacteria and other microbes in our digestive systems—may ...