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Probing the Mysteries of the Aging Brain
In July 2024, Segel joined the ranks of faculty in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS as an assistant professor of stem cell and regenerative biology. He has come full circle, working back on the ground floor of the same building where, as a high school summer intern, he once washed test tubes and moved liquids from bench to bench. “It feels like coming home to a building and an institution that really shaped my life,” Segel said.
The Science of Love
The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head over heels itself confers any direct evolutionary advantages, research suggests that romantic love may be a tool to achieve pairing and commitment that ensures optimal conditions for rearing children.
Q&A: What's at stake with the U.S. Supreme Court case on misinformation?
Concerns over medical misinformation are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic magnified long-simmering tensions over two fundamental concepts: Freedom of speech and the federal government's responsibility to protect people from what it considers false and dangerous claims. These are the core issues in a landmark case, Murthy v. Missouri, on which the Supreme Court of the United States is expected to issue a decision this summer.
Q&A: Is a global pandemic prevention pact within reach?
The World Health Organization's governing body is scheduled to meet on May 27 to discuss a critically needed plan for global pandemic preparedness. The organization's 194 members began discussing a global agreement more than two years ago, as the ravages wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic became apparent, but a pact intended to ensure equitable resources for all member countries has thus far failed to generate an accord.
Preapproval requirement for oral anticancer drugs may interfere with treatment
The use of prior authorizations by insurance companies for certain oral cancer drugs can lead to significant delays in patients' obtaining the medication and make it more likely that some would discontinue the drug, according to a new study from Harvard Medical School researchers. The research, conducted by co-authors Michael Anne Kyle and Nancy L. Keating of the Department of Health Care Policy in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS, was published on Dec. 12 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Preapproval Requirement for Oral Anticancer Drugs May Interfere with Treatment
At a glance: The use of prior authorization by insurance companies to approve medications and treatments has been on the rise over the last decade. A new Harvard Medical School analysis shows prior authorization may lead to delays in filling oral cancer prescriptions and greater risk that patients may discontinue taking the drugs. The findings raise concerns of access to care and oral anticancer drug medication adherence.
Confronting the Mystery of the Microbiome
Two years ago, with the unmistakable pop of a champagne cork, microbiologist Marco Jost launched his lab at Harvard Medical School. But that celebration was short-lived. Jost, sensing the vastness of the work ahead of him, set the bubbly aside and dove into his research on the human gut microbiome.
Systematic review: Evictions haunt families, harm children's health
Harvard Medical School student Bruce Ramphal grew up in the bustle and blight of a five-story Bronx apartment building where, from an early age, he saw and heard about neighbors and friends losing their homes. Evictions were a part of life there—a block from the frenetic Grand Concourse thoroughfare and a stone's throw from a police station nicknamed the Alamo. "There was just an acute fear of losing our home," said Ramphal.
Evictions Haunt Families, Harm Children’s Health
By DENNIS NEALON May 3, 2023 Research Education 5 min read Image: KLH49/iStock/Getty Images Plus At a glance: HMS student channels own experience to address the problem of housing instability among children. Children who experience evictions may be at higher risk for neurodevelopmental, other health problems, analysis shows. Researchers say housing stability is an important determinant of child health and overall development.
More common than we thought: The friend who doesn’t recognize you
Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we’ve never met or make us fail to recognize those we have, has been previously estimated to affect between 2 and 2.5 percent of people in the world. Now, a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the VA Boston Healthcare System is providing fresh insights into the disorder, suggesting it may be more common than currently believed.
When Doctors Know Each Other
Patients benefit when specialists know referring physicians, research says By DENNIS NEALON January 3, 2023 Research Care Delivery 6 min read Image: shapecharge/Getty Images E+ Are you likely to receive better care if the specialist treating you knows your primary care physician? The answer appears to be yes, according to new research from Harvard Medical School published Jan. 3 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
How Common Is Face Blindness?
Study suggests condition affects more people than previously thought By DENNIS NEALON February 24, 2023 Research 5 min read Image: designer491/Getty Images Plus Face blindness, a mystifying condition that can trick us into believing we recognize people we’ve never met or make us fail to recognize those we have, has been previously estimated to affect between 2 and 2.5 percent of people in the world.
Guns, gun violence, homicide rates, U.S. economy
GUNSThe Business Case for Reducing Gun Violence Published 1 November 2022 While gun violence in the United States continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, it is also taking a quiet toll on the U.S. economy, according to new research. The research found that the toll of U.S. firearms injuries on the U.S. economy reaches billions of dollars annually.
HMS Lends Expertise to Spanish-Language Health Podcast
Collaboration aimed at improving access to medical and health information for Latino communities By DENNIS NEALON October 20, 2022 Education 2 min read Image: avdyachenko/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership (DICP) at Harvard Medical School is working with public media outlet GBH News and the Spanish-language media organization El Planeta on a pathbreaking podcast series created specifically for Spanish-speaking individuals.
The Business Case For Reducing Gun Violence
Image: Nuthawut Somsuk/iStock/Getty Images Plus While gun violence in the United States continues to claim lives at an alarming rate, it is also taking a quiet toll on the U.S. economy, according to new research by Zirui Song, associate professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School and associate professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Is award-winning columnist STEVE LOPEZ of the LATimes really thinking about retirement?
STEVE LOPEZ, award-winning columnist at the LATimes and best-selling author (The Soloist), just won a prize from Harvard for political reporting, but I don’t think of him as a “Political Reporter”. He’s a story-teller and the leading characters in his stories are the unsung heroes of Los Angeles.
COVID-19 Boosters: When, Which, How
Credit: CC0 Public Domain More Americans seem to be heeding the latest scientific evidence pointing to COVID-19 booster shots as a boon to our immune systems and as protection against serious illness from SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially as the virus continues to mutate.
What is a COVID booster shot, why we need it and when we might be free of them
Similar to the fall flu vaccine, a COVID booster may be in our future — at least for the next few years, says an infectious disease expert. SDI Productions/iStock By Dennis Nealon HMS/The Harvard Gazette Questions about COVID-19 vaccine boosters — like who is eligible and how to choose one — have dominated scientific discussions, news headlines, and dinner-table conversations recently, but the practice of giving our immune systems periodic “refreshers” is anything but new.
Understanding the science behind a vaccine booster
Similar to the fall flu vaccine, a COVID booster may be in our future — at least for the next few years, says an infectious disease expert. SDI Productions/iStock What happens to our immune systems when we get a booster and will COVID boosters stay on the list?
What happens to our immune systems when we get a booster?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Questions about COVID-19 vaccine boosters—like who is eligible and how to choose one—have dominated scientific discussions, news headlines, and dinner-table conversations recently, but the practice of giving our immune systems periodic “refreshers” is anything but new. Jonathan Abraham, assistant professor of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, discussed with Harvard Medicine News the science and history of vaccine boosters.
What happens to our immune systems when we get a booster?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Questions about COVID-19 vaccine boosters—like who is eligible and how to choose one—have dominated scientific discussions, news headlines, and dinner-table conversations recently, but the practice of giving our immune systems periodic "refreshers" is anything but new.
Breaking Down Boosters
What happens to our immune systems when we get a booster? By DENNIS NEALON November 22, 2021 Research 3 min read Image: lakshmiprasad S/iStock/Getty Images Plus This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education, and policy related to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the disease COVID-19.
Wellesley man named to chief academic post at Wentworth
By Dennis Nealon Wednesday Jun 10, 2020 at 12:37 PM Ian Lapp, Ph.D., an experienced academic leader with a track record of building diverse teams around innovative initiatives, has been named senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Wentworth Institute of Technology, effective June 8. Lapp, a Wellesley resident, has held positions at Babson College, Harvard University and Columbia University and worked on public health education programs in Africa, Asia and Europe.
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