This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. New research has provided important insight into why some people fail to fully regain their sense of smell even months ...

Aspiring physician and recent college graduate Minjae (MJ) Eum intends to change circumstances and attitudes about medicine and health care in her home state, Alabama, patient by patient. Many people ...

Researchers looked at the 10 deadliest U.S. mass shootings between 2008 and 2023 and traffic fatalities the following day. Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the team found ...

Harvard Medical School brings together the brightest minds in science and medicine to improve health and well-being for all. The School and its affiliated hospitals and research institutes are home to ...

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In FY24, Harvard Medical School achieved breakeven on unrestricted resources for the third consecutive year despite continued financial challenges. We did so by deploying flexible cash reserves, which ...

The Harvard Medical School campus is situated in the center of the Longwood Medical Area, located in the historic Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. Surrounded by several of its world-renowned ...

Instructors and students in the HMS Advanced Medical Spanish course HMS provides medical language training and certification opportunities to support MD students as they pursue clinical training, ...

For the discovery of the molecular pathway used by all multicellular organisms to sense and adapt to changes in oxygen, a process essential for survival (with Peter J. Ratcliffe, University of ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in their complex local environments, opening new avenues to investigate bacterial ...

HMS student channels own experience to address the problem of housing instability among children. Children who experience evictions may be at higher risk for neurodevelopmental, other health problems, ...

A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School details the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain’s protective layers — the meninges — and cause brain infection ...