Health & Medicine
Cutting-edge developments in biomedical research, public health, and clinical practice at Harvard’s medical institutions.
Five Questions with Tien Jiang
How brushing and flossing can protect your heart
Starlink
Seniors hunker down in communal quarantine.
by Eve Driver
Building a Better COVID-19 Swab
Engineers at the Wyss Institute address a critical shortage of nasal swabs.
Harvard fall reopening plans
Provost Alan Garber outlines the possibilities and options—and the College prepares for continued remote teaching, if necessary
Alone on Harvard’s Campus
Most days, I see no one at all.
by Jeremy Tsai
Letting Go of the “Ideal” Classroom
“The ‘ideal’ classroom never existed anyway, at least not in a perfectly equitable manner,” writes Julie Chung ’20.
by Julie Chung
Poet and physician Rafael Campo on connection and empathy in caregiving during t
Poet and physician Rafael Campo on connection and empathy in caregiving during the pandemic’s isolation
Tackling the pandemic's hard ethical questions
Tackling the pandemic's hard ethical and social questions in an online Harvard discussion with Michael Sandel
Zoom and the zero commute
“The biggest obstacle to our collective learning is the elephant in the room: a global pandemic, taking place amid existing inequalities,” writes Drew Pendergrass ’20.
Harvard Arts and Sciences Freezes Faculty Hiring
Dean Gay outlines near-term actions—and “the definition of a hard problem” facing the FAS.
Harvard Schools Pandemic Pressures
Deans articulate their diverse faculties’ divergent priorities (and problems)—plus an MIT perspective