Health & Medicine
Cutting-edge developments in biomedical research, public health, and clinical practice at Harvard’s medical institutions.
Discoveries
Short takes on cutting-edge research
Reparations as Public Health
A Harvard forum on the racial health gap
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
An expert Harvard panel discusses the links between air pollution and dementia, learning, mental health, and mood.
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Expert advice for daily life
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
The male-female longevity gap widens
Men’s lower life expectancy fueled by COVID-19, overdoses
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome
Vikram Patel
He wanted to be a chef, but instead became a leader in global health
The Brain-Cancer Link
Growth-stimulating crosstalk between the brain and cancer tumors presents a new target for therapy.
Tackling the Dental Care Desert
Harvard alumnae establish a college of dental medicine in rural Missouri.