With impact of mental activity unclear, Chan School’s David Canning will mine federation’s database and track cognitive performance of 200 players.

Harvard specialists say COVID-19 pills may cut hospitalizations and deaths and offer big boost to nations struggling with low vaccination rates.

Wrestling with a health care conundrum: how to get people to listen?

A Chan School panel details need for broader health campaigns that also include various vaccines in conflict areas.

The Gazette spoke with Andrew Chan, director of cancer epidemiology at the Mass. General Cancer Center, about the new thinking around aspirin.

Renee Salas, an ER doctor and assistant professor of medicine, addressed questions about a new climate and health report from The Lancet.

Harvard’s new vice provost for climate and sustainability talks about coming efforts to boost Harvard’s response to the multiple challenges presented by climate change.

Sedentary tendencies may be robbing aging humans of a key benefit of exercise: the myriad repair mechanisms that heal the body from the minor dings and tears of hunter-gatherer and farming lifestyles.

Harvard-led research signals life-saving potential for artificial intelligence in fight against colon cancer.

The delta variant’s increased infectiousness, coupled with remaining pools of unvaccinated people and those whose immunity has waned, are enough to drive a winter COVID-19 surge even in highly vaccinated parts of the country, a Harvard infectious diseases expert said.