Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms September 22, 2025 Staffing, salary cuts offer likely explanation for increase compared to non-private-equity hospitals
The First Precision Medicine for a Genetic Heart Disease September 11, 2025 Discoveries in the Seidman Lab gave way to a novel treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
New Research Building Renamed as Veritas Science Center September 3, 2025 Underscores Harvard Medical School’s commitment to research and discovery
Could Lithium Explain — and Treat — Alzheimer’s Disease? August 6, 2025 Study: Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice
How Buying Primary Care on the Free Market Adds to Doctor Shortages June 24, 2025 Health care policy researcher discusses the pros and cons of concierge medicine
Improving Creation of Microglia in a Dish for Brain Research June 10, 2025 More efficient and authentic cell creation enables immune studies, drug development
Why Federal Funding for Health Care Policy Research Matters June 5, 2025 Nicole Maestas on how cuts threaten quality, sustainability of care
Meet Two of the Researchers Selected by the Pope To Promote Science May 5, 2025 Members of Pontifical Academy of Sciences share hopes for improving human health
Blavatnik Therapeutics Challenge Awards Fuel Translational Research March 3, 2025 Awards aim to accelerate translation of discoveries made at Harvard Medical School into new…
Creating the World’s First CRISPR Medicine, for Sickle Cell Disease February 20, 2025 How a genetic insight paired with gene editing technology led to a life-changing new therapy
Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language Family February 5, 2025 Findings resolve “steppe hypothesis” enigma
Why Finding a Primary Care Doctor Is So Hard January 31, 2025 Harvard Medical School physician-researcher diagnoses the problem and offers a plan for a cure