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Health Older adults at highest risk for suicide, yet have fewest resources Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide...

Kinvard Bio co-founder Ben Tresco inspects a colony of drug-resistant bacteria. Health Harvard startup creating a new class of antibiotics...

Health A dietary swap that could lengthen your life? Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk...

Health Eating citrus may lower depression risk Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding Saima Sidik Harvard Correspondent...

Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Health Primary care has money problems. This might help. Physician-researcher sees promise in five-year ‘prospective payment’...

Health Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer Brian Liau. Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Yahya Chaudhry Harvard...

Health Cancer claims are everywhere. Which to trust? Illustrations by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer February 11,...

Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics. Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Health It’s inoperable cancer. Should...

Health The lie that taints perfectionism ‘How to Be Enough’ author on the difference between admiration and acceptance, the power...

Health Different day, different diagnosis? Study finds spike in ADHD cases on Halloween, highlighting stakes of cognitive bias in medicine...