Health & Medicine
Academia’s Absence from Homelessness
“The lack of dedicated research funding in this area is a major, major problem.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Homelessness Public Health Crisis
Homelessness has surged in the United States, with devastating effects on the public health system.
by Lydialyle Gibson
AI as Cancer Oracle?
How is artificial intelligence (AI) being used for cancer detection and prevention?
by Daniel Oberhaus
Private Equity and the Practice of Medicine
Hundreds of U.S. hospitals are owned by private equity firms—does monetizing medicine affect the quality of care?
by Colleen Walsh
Diversifying Diet
A little-known diet improves cardiovascular health through several distinct mechanisms.
by Nina Pasquini
Reparations as Public Health
A Harvard forum on the racial health gap
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
An expert Harvard panel discusses the links between air pollution and dementia, learning, mental health, and mood.
by Jonathan Shaw
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Expert advice for daily life
by Jonathan Shaw
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet,” by “Samuel Shem,” probes medicine—and life.
by Craig Lambert
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
by Jonathan Shaw
The Male-Female Longevity Gap Widens
Men’s lower life expectancy fueled by COVID-19, overdoses
by Max J. Krupnick