Most of us are familiar with COVID-19’s hallmark symptoms of a loss of taste or smell and difficulty breathing, but a full 60 percent…
In a recent posting on her Facebook page, Brytney Cobia, a physician in Birmingham, Alabama, described the pain of telling COVID patients who are…
The thickness of growth marks in primary (or “baby”) teeth may help identify children at risk for depression and other mental health disorders later…
Rates of childhood obesity are at historically high levels in the U.S., yet there are few interventions that promote healthy weight gain in children…
When Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced last month that its investigational stem-cell-derived replacement therapy was, in conjunction with immunosuppressive therapy, helping the first patient in a…
Simone Biles was flying over a vault at the Tokyo Olympics when she felt the “twisties” — a kind of mental block that disorients…
New research may have identified a potential treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The study, published in the journal…
Harvard experts in medical therapeutics say the recent development of pills to treat COVID-19 may turn out to be a pandemic game changer for…
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed what Harvard-affiliated physicians had reported from anecdotal and laboratory evidence: the delta variant of…