A new tool has just vastly broadened the scale at which researchers can study these proteins, promising to speed basic ...

Rochelle Walensky, HMS professor of medicine, part-time, at Massachusetts General Hospital, was given the 2026 Tzedakah ...

A study of Medicare Savings Programs from 2006 to 2019 shows that raising income limits for eligibility improves coverage by ...

Higher socioeconomic status, which typically includes higher income and more education, has been linked to better health ...

First-in-class medication halts HIV replication by disrupting a critical piece of the viral machinery — the capsid protein shell that protects the vial genome. Twice-a-year injection removes ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. As SARS-CoV-2 seems to settle into the background of our lives, transitioning from an unprecedented crisis to a ...

Study finds only some mutations believed to cause cancer actually do — and age provides a clue ...

The Harvard Medical School campus is situated in the center of the Longwood Medical Area, located in the historic Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. Surrounded by several of its world-renowned ...

The first administrative organization of Harvard Medical School after its founding in 1782 took place in 1816 with the appointment of Dr. John Collins Warren as Dean, a new office created to oversee ...

Discoveries made at Harvard Medical School have improved the health and lives of countless people. Today, we continue our progress toward the treatments of tomorrow. Our researchers – based at the ...

For the discovery of the molecular pathway used by all multicellular organisms to sense and adapt to changes in oxygen, a process essential for survival (with Peter J. Ratcliffe, University of ...