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...
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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...
Is your cholesterol too high based on latest guidelines? Study flags elevated LDL levels of 1 in 3 Americans without history of heart disease as major miss fo...
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Greg Verdine. Finding ways to ‘drug the undruggable’ diseases Greg Verdine, a force behind pancreatic cancer progress, learned from a devastating family acc...