Excerpt from Barrett Rollins’ ‘In Sickness’

Barrett Rollins, wife Jane Weeks were Dana-Farber stars who kept her cancer secret nearly to end.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Nov. 30, 2022 ~12 min

Physicians discuss COP27, need to keep focus on toll suffered by real people

The health impacts of climate change are gaining greater recognition, but the most important thing, one expert said, is to keep telling people’s stories.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Nov. 28, 2022 ~6 min


Glimmers of movement, hope at COP27

The most significant climate change action during COP27 this month occurred thousands of miles away, in Bali, Indonesia, when the U.S. and China agreed to restart what had been a successful partnership to cut globe warming emissions before the two nations’ relations soured in recent years.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Nov. 23, 2022 ~10 min

New CDC guidelines a ‘corrective’ for opioid prescriptions, specialist says

The CDC updates its 2016 opioid prescribing guidelines, to emphasize flexibility over rigid practices and laws whose aim is to reduce addiction.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Nov. 21, 2022 ~8 min

Harvard study looks at how cephalopods develop their big brains

How squid and octopus get their big brains.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 16, 2022 ~5 min

New Harvard Ph.D. program on quantum science

First cohort for Harvard quantum science and engineering program.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 15, 2022 ~9 min

Knowing what the doctor knows

Tom Delbanco, the John F. Keane and Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, explains why he supports giving patients greater access to records, pushing back on concerns about potential impact of a scary diagnosis

Alvin Powell • harvard
Nov. 15, 2022 ~9 min

New report shows forests have big role to play in climate change fight

Study looks at how forests in New England can be better utilized in the fight against climate change.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 14, 2022 ~5 min


The myth of the ‘math person’

Anxiety illuminated by author and Radcliffe grad Sheila Tobias resonates with students, teachers almost 50 years later.

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Nov. 9, 2022 ~7 min

New Harvard class on dog behavior

Harvard students discern why dogs do what they do in new class.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Nov. 8, 2022 ~8 min

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