After decades of improvement, cardiovascular health rates on worrying path

Researchers, CDC report trend is stagnating — and for middle-aged, even declining.

Jacqueline Mitchell • harvard
Nov. 27, 2023 • ~3 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

Former CDC directors discuss the future of the agency

Five former CDC directors convened for a panel about the future of the agency.

Lian Parsons • harvard
April 7, 2022 • ~5 min

Harvard experts stress testing, vaccination amid Delta surge

Conversations with Harvard experts shed light on the rise of Delta, an unwelcome twist in transmission, the power of vaccination, and more.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Aug. 3, 2021 • ~8 min

Technology can keep up with COVID variants, say experts

Despite worries that a new coronavirus variant may be able to evade vaccines just being distributed, a Harvard public health expert expressed confidence in the same technology that produced the vaccines in record time.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Jan. 22, 2021 • ~6 min

Alumni fight COVID-19 battle on many fronts

The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the novel coronavirus to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
May 12, 2020 • ~17 min

Health care disparities in the age of coronavirus

Harvard scholars discuss health care disparities in the age of coronavirus.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
April 14, 2020 • ~9 min

Harvard Chan School students become volunteer workforce

Soon hundreds of students from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will begin assisting with phone calls and emails, and taking part in efforts to identify and reach out to anyone who may have come into contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
April 3, 2020 • ~9 min

Harvard specialist focuses on opioid crisis as U.S. life expectancy drops

Against a backdrop of recent jumps in drug overdose deaths and suicide, McLean Hospital psychologist R. Kathryn McHugh discusses the opioid crisis and increasing suicide deaths with the Gazette.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Dec. 10, 2018 • ~13 min

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