Once a drug target is identified, it often takes decades until a chemical compound is developed that can hit the bullseye and ...

The awards were made possible by ongoing support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation that aims to spur scientific ...

Once those prices are set, most large government programs that cover prescription drugs pay prices that are tied to ...

The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

Arky discussed these changes with David Jones, the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at HMS and the ...

Researchers have developed an AI system called Dr. CaBot that spells out its reasoning as it works through challenging medical cases and reaches a diagnosis. For the first time, the New England ...

Correctly distinguishing between look-alike tumors found in the brain during surgery can guide critical decisions in real time while patient is still in the operating room. A new AI tool outperformed ...

Patient deaths increased in the emergency departments of hospitals acquired by private equity firms compared to similar hospitals, a nationwide study has found. Researchers linked the increase in ...

A protein called STUB1 weakens the cancer-killing power of immune T cells by blocking key signals they need to attack tumors. Disabling STUB1 in lab experiments strengthened T cells’ response to the ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

Research in mice shows that inflammatory molecules influence mood and behavior by acting on specific brain regions. The findings help explain why some people experience lasting mood changes after ...