As the baby boomer generation moves into retirement age, it is expected that by the year 2034, older adults (ages 65 and up) will…
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This Thanksgiving, it may be better to forget about even trying to pretend things are normal. Instead, Karestan Koenen suggested acknowledging up-front that it…
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health, offers context about the…
Harvard Medical School scientists report they have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye cells in the retina…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been easy to forget that a number of longstanding deadly global health problems remain with us, in some cases…
The initial surge of COVID-19 patients in Boston-area hospitals has passed, but the memories of caring for them will forever remain with physicians involved…
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Scientists have created candidate vaccines, which eventually could protect billions of people from COVID-19, with astonishing speed, compressing scientific efforts that usually take years…