Religious services may lower risk of ‘deaths of despair’

New research from the Harvard Chan School found that people who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning.

Chris Sweeney • harvard
May 6, 2020 ~4 min

Lessons from the center of the state’s pandemic

Researcher Katharine Robb details how housing policies affect social and health crises, like the current pandemic.

Daniel Harsha • harvard
May 5, 2020 ~6 min


How to ease loneliness and feel more connected

Harvard experts suggest using creativity and looking out for others as ways to get over our own loneliness as keeping socially distanced grinds on.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 4, 2020 ~8 min

Brothers deploy COVID-19 screening tool for refugee populations

Brothers Hassaan Ebrahim, a student at Harvard Kennedy School, and Senan, a third-year Harvard Medical School student, founded Hikma Health, a nonprofit that builds software for organizations providing health care to refugee populations.

Alex Parks • harvard
May 1, 2020 ~7 min

How We Feel app helps track spread of COVID-19

How We Feel app helps fill information gaps regarding the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
April 30, 2020 ~7 min

Third-year resident describes a day in the life of an ER doctor

Urgent-care physician Anita Chary has turned her attention to treating those suffering from COVID-19 in recent weeks.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
April 29, 2020 ~14 min

New technology could provide rapid detection of COVID-19

The CRISPR-based molecular diagnostics chip’s capacity ranges from detecting a single type of virus in more than 1,000 samples at a time to searching a small number of samples for more than 160 different viruses, including the COVID-19 virus.

Karen Zusi • harvard
April 29, 2020 ~8 min

Wyss-designed swabs enter human trials for COVID-19

The Wyss Institute has collaborated in the design of a new low-cost nasopharyngeal swabs that can be manufactured quickly to address the international shortage of swabs for testing and research.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
April 28, 2020 ~12 min


Harvard alums on the front lines

Physicians caring for different populations in three hospitals describe life in the midst of a pandemic.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
April 27, 2020 ~23 min

One-third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients show signs of delirium

Early data from peer-reviewed studies suggest that one-third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients of all ages, and two-thirds of those with severe disease, show signs of delirium.

Stephanie Dutchen • harvard
April 27, 2020 ~12 min

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