Efforts to develop a gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA) — a rare, life-threatening disorder in which bone marrow ...

Once inside the body, HIV persists because of its remarkable ability to hide within healthy CD4 T cells, where it can lie ...

But a new study, published Nov. 19 in Current Biology, offers compelling evidence that even tiny single-cell creatures such ...

“We’ve built a blueprint of the entire gut, and that’s a remarkable achievement,” said study senior author Ramnik Xavier, the ...

How two HMS scientists hope to speed journey from diagnosis to recovery ...

Keisha Carisse P. Mangalili, MD, is a general practitioner and passionate advocate for health system improvement in the Philippines. A first-year student in Harvard Medical School’s Master of Medical ...

Established in 1782, the School has produced generations of physicians whose life's work is to care for patients with skill, compassion and integrity. HMS graduates also embrace opportunities to have ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Insect-borne disease transmission; scurvy; heat-killed vaccines Theobald Smith identifies ...

Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS is an obesity medicine physician scientist, educator, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a ...

A style of yoga that combines with other disciplines like Tai chi, Qigong, Indian and contemporary dance to create a more natural approach to the practice of yoga. A high-energy rotation of strength ...

How many of those who are ballroom dancing, doing the foxtrot, break dancing, doing the foxtrot, break dancing, or line dancing, realize that they are doing something positive for their bodies—and ...