A recent CBS News/YouGov survey found that two-thirds of Americans want recreational marijuana use to be legal. Nearly 70 percent of states allow the…
Just five steps are enough to gain control of the nation’s COVID-19 outbreak and head off a return to the complete lockdowns many states…
Nobody was prepared for 2020, but a public talk on collective trauma in December 2019 was prescient. At Harvard Medical School’s live-streamed “Talk@12,” Bala…
Home from school and separated from peers during crucial developmental phases, young children and adolescents were clearly among the people most negatively impacted, in…
Mortality rates after cancer surgery declined for Black as well as white patients during a recent 10-year period, although the mortality gap between the…
Obesity has been linked to increased risk for over a dozen different types of cancer, as well as worse prognosis and survival. Over the…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been easy to forget that a number of longstanding deadly global health problems remain with us, in some cases…
Eating milk chocolate every day may sound like a recipe for weight gain, but a new study of postmenopausal women has found that eating…
Researchers at Harvard University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have created a detailed atlas of a critical region of the developing…