AI tool predicts melanoma survivor’s risk of recurrence

A new AI tool may help clinicians determine which early stage melanoma patients would likely benefit from aggressive treatment even at the onset of the disease.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Nov. 4, 2022 ~4 min

Excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s ‘The Song of the Cell’

Cells are the building blocks of life, Siddhartha Mukherjee says in his new book, but their vulnerabilities are also our vulnerabilities.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Nov. 2, 2022 ~13 min


Study details better outcomes for Omicron BA.2 patients

A team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital has determined that Omicron BA.2 is weaker than both Delta and the original Omicron variant.

Tracy Hampton • harvard
Oct. 26, 2022 ~3 min

Siddhartha Mukherjee on Aristotle, COVID, and the ‘new human’

Pulitzer Prize-winning physician-author Siddhartha Mukherjee returns with “The Song of the Cell.”

Caitlin McDermott-Murphy • harvard
Oct. 20, 2022 ~7 min

Is pandemic finally over? We asked the experts.

Harvard faculty discuss changes to views on school, work, winter’s likely surge, danger of "lethal inflexibility."

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 11, 2022 ~11 min

Building ‘bravery muscles’ to fight rising youth anxiety

Harvard psychologist says pandemic worsened trend and screening, early intervention key to avoiding bigger problems.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Oct. 7, 2022 ~10 min

Study looks at why late-night eating increases obesity risk

A new study explains that when we eat significantly impacts our energy expenditure, appetite, and molecular pathways in body fat.

Kira Sampson • harvard
Oct. 4, 2022 ~7 min

Genetic study shows evolution of human pelvis

Study shows how pelvis takes shape and what genes orchestrate the process.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
Sept. 28, 2022 ~4 min


Parents are so wrong about teenage sleep and health

Harvard-affiliated study upends common myths around melatonin, weekends, school start times.

Brigham and Women’s Communications • harvard
Sept. 28, 2022 ~5 min

Forget the sedatives, I’ll take some VR

Study of hand-surgery patients suggests “immersive experience” can curb need for drugs, cut hospital stay.

Jacqueline Mitchell • harvard
Sept. 26, 2022 ~6 min

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