Wellness Guide
Which diet is right for you? Wrong question.
Humans didn’t evolve to shop for food that has been collected, packaged with nutritional information, and arranged by category in brightly lit supermarkets. In fact, we…
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Mental Health
Note to stressed parents: Instead of trying to be perfect, do this.
Experts offer tips for raising children while overwhelmed
Mental Health
Pioneering cancer fighter sees promise beyond melanoma breakthrough
In mid-August, the drugmakers Moderna and Merck announced that a cancer vaccine trial had successfully lowered risk of both death and metastases of melanoma, a deadly…
Food
Why is yogurt good for us?
Genghis Khan supposedly fed it to his troops for strength and bravery. He might have been onto something.
Wellness Guide
More evidence that mass shootings are suicidal acts
Research suggests that most mass shootings are at their core suicidal acts, and new findings linking gun violence, suicide, and seasonality add support to that theory.…
Wellness Guide
Has pancreatic cancer met its match?
Last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug for one of the deadliest cancers, lending new hope to patients whose treatment options had…
Wellness Guide
Does having a bad dream make you a bad person?
Part of the Wondering series A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. Deirdre Leigh Barrett is a dream researcher and a Harvard Medical School…
Health News
Who needs opioids?
For a patient having their wisdom teeth removed, the days after surgery can bring an important question: How much pain medication will I actually need? Over-the-counter…
Wellness Guide
How did her sister become so sick so fast?
A series focused on the personal side of Harvard research and teaching. Joan Brugge was on track to graduate from Northwestern University in a few years…
Health News
The healing power of gene therapy
Baby KJ made national headlines last year when at 6 months old he became the first person to receive a personalized CRISPR gene-editing treatment for his…