This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of COVID-19. New research has provided important insight into why some people fail to fully regain their sense of smell even months ...

Aspiring physician and recent college graduate Minjae (MJ) Eum intends to change circumstances and attitudes about medicine and health care in her home state, Alabama, patient by patient. Many people ...

Instructors and students in the HMS Advanced Medical Spanish course HMS provides medical language training and certification opportunities to support MD students as they pursue clinical training, ...

First-in-class medication halts HIV replication by disrupting a critical piece of the viral machinery — the capsid protein shell that protects the vial genome. Twice-a-year injection removes ...

Researchers have built a tool to safely study, at scale, the proteins made by hundreds of viruses that can cause disease in humans. The work enables deeper investigation into how viruses disrupt cells ...

Researchers looked at the 10 deadliest U.S. mass shootings between 2008 and 2023 and traffic fatalities the following day. Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the team found ...

Force behind pancreatic cancer progress learned improvisational thinking from a devastating family… ...

In FY24, Harvard Medical School achieved breakeven on unrestricted resources for the third consecutive year despite continued financial challenges. We did so by deploying flexible cash reserves, which ...

The first administrative organization of Harvard Medical School after its founding in 1782 took place in 1816 with the appointment of Dr. John Collins Warren as Dean, a new office created to oversee ...

Discoveries made at Harvard Medical School have improved the health and lives of countless people. Today, we continue our progress toward the treatments of tomorrow. Our researchers – based at the ...

Study finds only some mutations believed to cause cancer actually do — and age provides a clue ...

For the discovery of the molecular pathway used by all multicellular organisms to sense and adapt to changes in oxygen, a process essential for survival (with Peter J. Ratcliffe, University of ...