Fume hoods are a common major driver. An open fume hood acts like a fan blowing heated or cooled air out a window all day, ...

The Gairdner Awards, which celebrate scientists who have made seminal discoveries or contributions to biomedical research, ...

Harvard Medical School goes even further to safeguard research integrity by requiring training for all its PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, regardless of whether they are federally funded. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes identifies the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever. Theobald Smith identifies the mechanism of insect-borne disease transmission, discovers the ...

The Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center provides a comprehensive program of clinical services including general internal medicine and all of the subspecialties of internal ...

Glucose, a form of sugar, is the primary source of energy for every cell in the body. Because the brain is so rich in nerve cells, or neurons, it is the most energy-demanding organ, using one-half of ...

Over the past several decades, sciences informing general and health professions education have grown in prominence and potential such that master’s programs in this field are now distinguishing ...

Our educational programs advance Harvard Medical School's core mission to alleviate human suffering by nurturing a diverse group of leaders and future leaders in both clinical care and biomedical ...

Our mission is to train the next generation of physician-scientist leaders, who represent a rich spectrum of clinical disciplines and research areas from basic and translational sciences to ...

These findings not only affect the health and well-being of professional players and their families, they have also left parents questioning whether they should prohibit their children from playing ...