Harvard Medical School

To Promote Healthy Habits in Patients, Start With the Doctors

Why Harvard Medical School is training physicians to think more like coaches

by Jonathan Shaw

Discoveries: Chronic Pain, Cocoa Shortages, and Making Old Lungs Young

Harvard researchers investigate climate’s impact on cocoa crops, innovations in nasal vaccines, and links between pain and skull marrow.

by Jonathan Shaw

Union Walkouts, AI Debates, Morgue Case Closed: The Latest Harvard News

As the fall semester began, the University continued to fight the effects of Trump administration actions—legally and financially.

Harvard Agrees to $53 Million Settlement in Body Parts Theft Case

The University will compensate families of those whose remains were sold and establish a scholarship to honor anatomical donors.

by Lydialyle Gibson

How to Care for Patients in AI-Driven Medicine

Harvard’s Arthur Kleinman reflects on what’s lost when healthcare systems prioritize efficiency.

by Olivia Farrar

The Harvard Doctor Who Made Kidney Transplants Possible

Nobel Prize recipient Joseph E. Murray dedicated much of his career to organ transplant surgery.

by Diane Speare Triant

My Pet Rabbit Lost Her Companion. Then She Went Speed Dating.

An animal’s journey from grief to love shows how much humans need each other, too.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Government Seeks More Harvard Admissions Data

Justice Department says it needs proof that Harvard is complying with a 2023 court ruling.

by Jonathan Shaw

Where Does Biomedicine Go from Here?

A former Harvard physician on why public trust in healthcare is falling.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Panel Debunks the Population Implosion Myth

Public health professors parse the evidence surrounding falling U.S. birth rates.

by Jonathan Shaw

Free Speech, the Bomb—and Donald Trump

A Harvard cardiologist on the unlikely alliances that shaped a global movement to prevent nuclear war