Amid rapid changes that are causing an upheaval in global health, Harvard Medical School community members gathered to ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

The 2026 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for their work leading to curative genetic ...

A pair of new studies indicates that Medicare’s Oncology Care Model, a major test of value‑based payment in cancer care, was more successful than early evaluations suggested. The new analyses show ...

Applying new analytic methods to nearly 16,000 ancient genomes reveals natural selection has acted on hundreds, not dozens, of genes in West Eurasia over the last 10,000 years. More than half of the ...

Harvard Medical School has announced 10 recipients of the Blavatnik Institute Early Career Investigator Awards. Totaling $5 million, these grants are designed to fuel high-potential research conducted ...

Luca Maini, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, studies competition and regulation in pharmaceutical markets. He has studied how national ...

Researchers have developed an AI system called Dr. CaBot that spells out its reasoning as it works through challenging medical cases and reaches a diagnosis. For the first time, the New England ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real time while patient is still in the operating room. A new AI tool outperformed ...

A protein called STUB1 weakens the cancer-killing power of immune T cells by blocking key signals they need to attack tumors. Disabling STUB1 in lab experiments strengthened T cells’ response to the ...

Study shows for the first time that lithium plays an essential role in normal brain function and can confer resistance to brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists discovered that lithium is ...