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2009 flu could have echoed 1918
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic had the potential to be as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, which killed more than 50 million people, Canada’s chief public health officer said Monday, crediting modern ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Chasing down a better way to run: Researchers making breakthroughs in learning how and why we run
Harvard Provost Alan Garber loves running — so much so that when he returned to his alma mater last year, he listed among the job’s perks a chance to resume his exercise route along the Charles River.
Other
Apr 05, 2012 |
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You, revealed: 'X-Rays of the Soul' examines history, influence of Rorschach test
With the creation, in 1921, of the Rorschach inkblot test, psychologists and researchers had at their disposal a tool that might offer access to the inner life or “secret self” of a subject: the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 03, 2012 |
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Pondering health, at home and abroad
The world is in the midst of a health care transition in which the primary threat increasingly comes from chronic diseases rather than infectious ones, and where the ailments of the elderly are supplanting ...
Health
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Harvard researchers conduct promising study using smartphones to aid therapy
Are you constantly overcome with worry, perhaps about what to do if your children or parents got sick, how to pay your bills, or whether that mole on your hand is the first sign of a medical scare? Does the ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Bleary America needs some shut-eye
Stop yawning, America, and get some sleep. It’s more important than you think.
Health
Mar 09, 2012 |
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In the genes, but which ones? Earlier studies that linked specific genes to intelligence were largely wrong
For decades, scientists have understood that there is a genetic component to intelligence, but a new Harvard study has found both that most of the genes thought to be linked to the trait are probably not in ...
Genetics
Feb 24, 2012 |
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Right choice, but not the intuitive one
To take a gratifying, low-paying job or a well-paid corporate position, to get married or play the field, to move across the country or stay put: The fact that most people face such choices at some point in ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2012 |
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Right time for 'end-of-life' talk
The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according ...
Health
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Decoding keys to a healthy life
For 74 years, one of the longest-running studies of normal adult development has been examining not disease and illness, but what may be life’s magic question: How can you live long and happy?
Health
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Study shows how neurons interact, could lead to new treatment for addiction
Harvard scientists have developed the fullest picture yet of how neurons in the brain interact to reinforce behaviors ranging from learning to drug use, a finding that might open the door to possible breakthroughs in the ...
Neuroscience
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Researcher creates neurons that light up as they fire
In a scientific first that potentially could shed new light on how signals travel in the brain, how learning alters neural pathways, and might lead to speedier drug development, scientists at Harvard have created genetically-altered ...
Neuroscience
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Bacterial genes tell the tale of an outbreak’s evolution
Researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Children’s Hospital Boston have retraced the evolution of an unusual bacterial infection as it spread among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients by sequencing ...
Genetics
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Neurons in youth
Have you ever wondered why infants can learn foreign languages easily, while older children and parents struggle? Or why your third-grader can fix your computer, but you can barely check your email? The answer, ...
Neuroscience
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Affordable cancer treatments available
More than 2.4 million cancer deaths could be avoided each year in developing countries using prevention and treatment interventions that are affordable and that could be made widely available, according to ...
Health
Oct 31, 2011 |
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