Scientists have created candidate vaccines, which eventually could protect billions of people from COVID-19, with astonishing speed, compressing scientific efforts that usually take years…
Short bursts of physical exercise induce changes in the body’s levels of metabolites that correlate to an individual’s cardiometabolic, cardiovascular, and long-term health, a…
A single-shot vaccine for COVID-19 being developed by a group of scientists, led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) immunologist Dan H. Barouch,…
When a patient with cancer is told the devastating news that their disease has spread, or metastasized, to a new part of their body,…
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This Thanksgiving, it may be better to forget about even trying to pretend things are normal. Instead, Karestan Koenen suggested acknowledging up-front that it…
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health, offers context about the…
Experiencing adversity early in life has a direct effect on a person’s mental and physical health as they grow, and certain kinds of trauma…