Handwashing does more than remove visible dirt. Proper hand hygiene helps interrupt pathways through which harmful microorganisms can spread.
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Your hearing risk depends on more than volume. Learn why safe listening time falls sharply as sound levels rise and what you can do to protect your ears.
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How to fix U.S. healthcare? ‘Radical action,’ says John McDonough. Chan School expert links soaring costs to broader policy shifts in ‘America’s Wrong Turn’...
Why does the United States spend so much more on healthcare than other wealthy countries? Harvard professor John McDonough traces part of the answer to decades of policy change, consolidation and growing commercial influence.
Screening newborns for cancer risk Blood samples routinely collected at birth could be used for genetic testing, potentially helping 1,000 children a year, st...
Tong Xia.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer For women in menopause, ‘not all healthy diets are equal’ Study comparing 11 eating patterns finds two clea...
Photo by Antonia Prescott ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’ Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how, why humans evolved to eat it all...
Photo by Antonia Prescott Total keto or veganism? Daniel Lieberman considers how humans evolved to eat. Excerpt from evolutionary biologist’s new book ‘Fed...
George Usmanov traverses Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin. Photo by Chad Ament Part grueling race, part field study Max Larkin Harvard Staff Writer Au...
AI use surging for mental health help among young people Hao Yu. File photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Alvin Powell Harvard Staff...