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Cross-section of lung tissue shows 6 structures with bright pink outlines and hollow middles, amid purple, green, yellow, and blue dots like a starfield.

HMS Announces Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards

November 6, 2025

10 projects receive basic and translational research funding

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The Economic Forces That Drive Prescription Drug Prices

October 30, 2025

Luca Maini on what new U.S. policies could mean for patients and health systems

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HMS Scientists Win Funding From Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

September 25, 2025

New technologies take aim at urgent challenges from autoimmune disease to cancer

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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

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Addressing Twofold Lung Damage

September 9, 2025

Molecule could hold a key to repairing tissue harmed by infection, inflammation

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Seeding Solutions for Bipolar Disorder

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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

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Why Federal Funding for Health Care Policy Research Matters

June 5, 2025

Nicole Maestas on how cuts threaten quality, sustainability of care

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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

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Probing the Mysteries of the Aging Brain

March 20, 2025

Research led by new faculty member Michael Segel focuses on mammalian lifespans

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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

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The Year in Harvard Medical School Science

December 18, 2024

Reflecting on research discoveries reported in 2024

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