Advancing mother-child health globally: One researcher's efforts
Globally, five million children die annually before the age of 5. Forty percent of these deaths are in the first month, and many are preventable.
May 31, 2023
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Globally, five million children die annually before the age of 5. Forty percent of these deaths are in the first month, and many are preventable.
May 31, 2023
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A little-known bacterium—a distant cousin of the microbes that cause tuberculosis and leprosy—is emerging as a public health threat capable of causing severe lung infections among vulnerable populations, those with compromised ...
May 30, 2023
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In what may turn out to be a long-missing piece in the puzzle of breast cancer, Harvard Medical School researchers have identified the molecular sparkplug that ignites cases of the disease currently unexplained by the classical ...
May 17, 2023
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An artificial intelligence tool has successfully identified people at the highest risk for pancreatic cancer up to three years before diagnosis using solely the patients' medical records, according to new research led by ...
May 8, 2023
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Harvard Medical School student Bruce Ramphal grew up in the bustle and blight of a five-story Bronx apartment building where, from an early age, he saw and heard about neighbors and friends losing their homes. Evictions were ...
May 3, 2023
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Cancer immunotherapy has transformed the treatment of many types of cancer. Yet, for reasons that remain poorly understood, not all patients get the same benefit from these powerful therapies.
May 3, 2023
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A new artificial intelligence model designed by researchers at Harvard Medical School and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan could bring much-needed clarity to doctors delivering prognoses and deciding on treatments ...
Apr 13, 2023
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Sleep is one of the most essential human activities—so essential, in fact, that if we don't get enough sleep for even one night, we may struggle to think, react, and otherwise make it through the day. Yet, despite its importance ...
Apr 11, 2023
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While serfs toiled and knights jousted in Europe and samurai and shoguns rose to power in Japan, the medieval peoples of the Swahili civilization on the coast of East Africa lived in multicultural, coral-stone towns and engaged ...
Mar 29, 2023
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A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID "long haulers" were more likely to be older and female, with more chronic conditions than people in a comparison group who—after getting COVID—did ...
Mar 9, 2023
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