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How We Feel app pilots COVID prediction model
June 14, 2022
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A connection between ancestry and the molecular makeup of cancer
June 14, 2022
Questions about the genealogical imprint of tumors have hovered over cancer research since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003.
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14 nurses on life and work during COVID
June 14, 2022
Since early 2020, when the pandemic exploded around the world, Massachusetts has seen nearly 19,000 COVID deaths and more than 840,000 cases.
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Pediatrician weighs in on COVID vaccines for kids 5-11
June 14, 2022
Last week, the FDA authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. After conducting their own review, the CDC
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Sleep test may help diagnose and predict dementia in older adults
June 14, 2022
Dementia is a growing problem for people as they age, but it often goes undiagnosed. Now investigators at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital
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Researchers’ tool discerns COVID symptoms from vaccine reaction
June 14, 2022
A decision-support tool helped health care workers distinguish symptoms associated with COVID-19 vaccinations from symptoms of the virus itself, found a study
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Harvard Medical School uses telemedicine as a way forward
June 14, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Harvard Medical School (HMS) to move learning online in March, faculty moved swiftly, developing new curriculum approaches,
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Baby teeth may help identify kids at risk for mental disorders
June 14, 2022
The thickness of growth marks in primary (or “baby”) teeth may help identify children at risk for depression and other mental health
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How to keep love alive in the midst of a pandemic
June 14, 2022
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer
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Uptick in heart attacks following 2016 presidential election
June 14, 2022
The hospitalization rate for acute cardiovascular disease events in a large southern California health system was 1.62 times higher in the two