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Insurance Data Could Help Fill Gaps Between Longer Clinical Trials

How real-world data can provide answers for patients up against the clock

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New Postdoctoral Fellowship Tackles U.S. Health Inequity

First fellow, Nadav Sprague, applies life lessons to the science of better health

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New Molecules Point the Way Toward Treating Crohn’s Disease

Work provides road map for translating genetic insights into potential therapies

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Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Evolving View of Cancer

The physician and author on ecology, oncology, and cancer’s expanding cosmos

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How Nutrient Availability Shapes Breast Cancer’s Spread

Complex landscape across organs controls tumors’ ability to thrive in mice

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Researchers Now Understand How a New Class of Antivirals Works

Imaging reveals structure, interaction of herpesvirus and drug in real time

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Perseverance Is the Prescription for Global Health Challenges

Louise Ivers on how Harvard community is persisting on path to global health equity

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Immune System Offers New Clues Into Long COVID

Evidence of chronic inflammation could provide new avenue for treatment

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Harvard Medical School’s Top Science News of 2025

10 biomedical discoveries that expand knowledge, may improve health

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How Much Are Concierge Medicine and Direct Primary Care Growing?

Study quantifies surge transforming U.S. health care

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Social Media Detox Boosts Mental Health, But Nuances Stand Out

“Wildly different reactions” among participants, says researcher

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Researchers Discover Bias in AI Models That Analyze Pathology Samples

The team created a new tool that reduces bias and improves cancer diagnosis across populations

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