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Health Alcohol is dangerous. So is ‘alcoholic.’ Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer April 30, 2024 5 min read Researcher explains...

A recent trial of a novel gene-editing technique that lowered dangerously high cholesterol by up to 55 percent has generated...

Health Women rarely die from heart problems, right? Ask Paula. New book traces how medical establishment’s sexism, focus on men...

Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Health When will patients see personalized cancer vaccines? Sooner than you may think, says researcher who...

Cristina Woo (center) in her lab with study co-authors Nandini Vallavoju (from left), Wenqing Xu, Ralph Mazitschek, and Connor Payne....

Health Asking the internet about birth control Takeaway from review of thousands of tweets: More experts, please. Kira Sampson BWH...

Health ‘Harvard Thinking’: Facing death with dignity In podcast episode, a chaplain, a bioethicist, and a doctor talk about end-of-life...

Members of the Mass General Cancer Center team Elizabeth Gerstner, (from left), William Curry, Marcela Maus, Bryan Choi, Kathleen Gallagher,...

Health Study of 4.3M pregnant women clarifies safety of antiseizure meds Using 20 years of data, prenatal exposure to topiramate...

Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a growing, deadly global health...