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Scientists Uncover Evidence on How Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Cells Form Findings Could Lead to More Effective Treatment for Global Disease Boston, MA — A new study led by Harvard School of Public (HSPH) researchers provides a novel explanation as to why some tuberculosis cells are inherently more difficult to treat with antibiotics. The discovery, which showed that the […]
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Relief for the weary Shore Fellowships allow young researchers to focus on key needs For Sunil Chauhan, an eye researcher at Harvard-affiliated Schepens Eye Research Institute and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, the Shore Fellowship means being able to hire an additional postdoctoral fellow to help in the lab. “This is a fantastic […]
Overall Hospital Admission Rates in U.S. Linked with High Rates of Readmission Boston, MA — High hospital readmission rates in different regions of the U.S. may have more to do with the overall high use of hospital services in those regions than with the severity of patients’ particular conditions or problems in the quality of […]
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Harvard professors partner in unique approach U.S.-based and Rwandan physicians work to treat cancer in children Sara Stulac (right), consults with colleagues at the Rwinkwavu Hospital in Eastern Rwanda. Stulac, who is a Harvard Medical School instructor in medicine and the director of pediatrics for Partners In Health, has designed a program that brings together […]
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The plight of adolescents, worldwide Conference reminds listeners of need to safeguard rights of the young Photos by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer/UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said that a nation’s economic progress alone won’t necessarily help the more than 1 billion children and adolescents living in poverty around the world. Focusing on fulfilling the human […]
Thinking green, and thinking big Six faculty share transformative ideas for sustainability Photos by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer /At the first Harvard Thinks Green, six Harvard professors gathered at Sanders Theatre to provide just that kind of thinking. They included Eric Chivian (from right), Rebecca Henderson, Christoph Reinhart, Robert Kaplan, Richard Lazarus, and James McCarthy. […]
Traumatic injury sets off a ‘genomic storm’ New research overturns longstanding assumption “Burn patients may take months to years to recover from their injuries, while trauma patients who are going to recover usually do so within a month. So it was entirely unexpected that gene expression patterns in burns and trauma patients changed in exactly […]
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Rotating Night Shift Work Linked to Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women Boston, MA — Women who work a rotating (irregular) schedule that includes three or more night shifts per month, in addition to day and evening working hours in that month, may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes when […]
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Plotting the demise of AIDS Scientists, doctors, and activists note progress, calibrate challenges Photo by Aubrey LaMedica/ HSPH / A two-day conference titled “AIDS@30: Engaging to End the Epidemic,” which drew hundreds to the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, worked to engage those who know the ailment best to plot its end. The Dec. 1 […]
Worming out of listening Freshman seminar re-creates Darwin’s experiments Justin Ide/Harvard Staff Photographer Earthworms took center stage at John Knowles Paine Hall last month as students in a freshman seminar re-created Darwin’s experiment exploring the creature’s hearing. Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Ned Friedman (third from left) and students peer at worms to […]
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