3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (123+ words) The Healthcare Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School has announced Maria Zou as the 2026-2027 recipient of the Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowship. For Christian Wiman, ‘dead on the table’ more than once, suffering is no longer the only authentic thing Jill…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (518+ words) Samantha Baldi and Joseph Taylor. Now, new research is allowing them to fine-tune their approach, potentially targeting specific symptoms and opening new possibilities for precision care. TMS is a well-established treatment for major depressive disorder, especially when therapy and medication…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (679+ words) Gene therapy yields lasting gains for patients with inherited deafness: ‘How well it worked is really amazing.’ An experimental gene therapy for people with an inherited form of deafness led to durable hearing improvements, a new study shows, with associated…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (295+ words) Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, at the 2026 Global Health Symposium. At the 2026 Global Health Symposium, hosted by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) on April 16, policymakers, practitioners, academics, and students gathered around a central idea: Achieving global…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (509+ words) New research from the Kempner Institute on the language-processing role of the cerebellum (highlighted above), has potential implications for treating language disorders, as well as for building future artificial intelligence language models. “We’ve identified a specific region of the cerebellum…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (685+ words) Study finds orthopedists, who treat kind of injuries that result from partner violence, refer patients to programs at very low rates Musculoskeletal injuries are the second–most-common physical manifestation of intimate partner violence. But orthopedic surgeons, who typically treat those…...