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
Harvard Spending Cuts: A Pandemic Update
University belt-tightening announced, plus further information on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—and higher education
Harvard Engineering Allston Move Deferred
As the pandemic halts construction, the move-in schedule for the fall semester has slipped.
The View from Mass Hall
President Bacow on encountering—and coming to terms with—COVID-19
Harvard faces coronavirus impact
The sudden dispersal from Cambridge and Boston, Commencement postponed, and the looming financial consequences
Harvard athletic season canceled
A necessary but brutal blow
Harvard’s Virtual Commencement
Harvard’s 369th Commencement goes virtual.
The End of Spontaneity
Lauren Fadiman ’21 on being away from college, where one is never alone
Toward a Pharmacology of Resolution
An HMS symposium highlights the immune system’s role in ending inflammation.
President Bacow on Harvard in pandemic
Larry Bacow puts Harvard in the perspective of the pandemic.
A Harvard Senior’s Call to the Home Front
“We are the generation that is coming of age in the COVID-19 crisis,” writes Lauren Spohn ’20. “What can we build? What can we sacrifice? What risks can we take?”
by Lauren Spohn