A few limited clinical trials of lithium for Alzheimer’s disease have shown some efficacy, but the lithium compounds they ...

Nearly 200 new medical and dental students donned white coats and celebrated the start of their educational journeys at ...

Pulmonary ionocytes (orange) extend through neighboring epithelial cells in the upper respiratory tract of the mouse, to the surface of the epithelial lining. Cell nuclei in cyan. Image: Montoro et al ...

Zhang and fellow students are benefiting from enhanced skill development as a result of a new type of position at the School, ...

Placebos have helped to ease symptoms of illness for centuries, despite their lack of active ingredients. They have also been a fundamental component of clinical research to test new drug therapies ...

When Perry Cohen experienced an urgent health concern earlier this year, his town’s only care provider who specializes in working with LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) patients ...

Why do some people lead a perfectly healthy lifestyle yet still die young? A new international study suggests that the answer lies in our DNA. The findings are published in the journal Aging.

Many people with autism spectrum disorders also experience unusual gastrointestinal inflammation, but thus far scientists have not established whether and how those conditions might be linked. Now, ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

New AI model identifies possible therapies from existing medicines for thousands of diseases, including rare ones with no current treatments. The AI tool generates new insights on its own, applies ...

This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older ...