Health & Medicine Stories
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Oct 23, 2012
A Plan to Stop Cholera's Spread
HMS Professor John Mekalanos, an expert on cholera, suggested Oct. 22 that relief workers and peacekeepers from cholera-endemic countries be treated with antibiotics before serving in cholera-free countries, as a way to avoid a repeat of the post-earthquake cholera epidemic in Haiti, which has killed thousands. Read More
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Sep 13, 2012
Skin Cancer Detection Breakthrough
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital have pinpointed when seemingly innocuous skin pigment cells mutate into melanoma. Read More
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Mar 9, 2012
Chris Guenard ’12
From studying stem cells to harvesting his own, Chris Guenard ’12 has described his experience at Harvard as an “incredible journey” and one, he says, that would not be possible without financial aid. Read More
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Mar 8, 2012
Bench to Bedside
Harvard researchers and clinicians collaborate across disciplines and around the globe to advance solutions to the world’s toughest health challenges. Together they drive advances from the laboratory bench to the patient bedside. Read More
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Dec 16, 2011
Tony Malkin ’84 and Shelly Malkin
“Harvard offers stem cell learning and research opportunities to everyone from undergraduates on up,” Tony Malkin '84 says. “We want to help Harvard attract, teach, and keep its best and brightest and ensure the University remains the ‘killer app’ in the stem cell research environment.” Read More
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Nov 22, 2010
Chemistry’s MacGyver
Professor George M. Whiteside’s new diagnostic tests fit on a piece of ordinary paper the size of a postage stamp and can be used in remote areas to diagnose disease. Read More
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Oct 28, 2010
HMS Launches Center for Primary Care
Harvard Medical School is launching a Center for Primary Care geared toward transforming primary care education, research, and delivery systems. Read More
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May 18, 2010
Faust Calls Global Health One of Her Main Priorities
President Faust appointed Sue J. Goldie, Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health and director of the Center for Health Decision Science at HSPH, as the director of the Harvard Institute for Global Health. Read More
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Dec 17, 2009
Want to Live Well?
You are what you eat. You’re also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value. Read More
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