Harvard Medical School

There’s enormous pressure on authorities to solve the Covid-19 pandemic. A vaccine is one potential solution. In July, US president Donald Trump toure(...)

Scientists in Ireland, the UK and US have discovered a new metabolic process in the body that can switch off inflammation. The discovery opens up a st(...)

If you want to lower risk of injury while running, leave the expensive footwear behind and run with minimal or no shoes. Research from the Universit(...)

Many athletes and visitors at the Olympic games in Rio may worry about possible contagion with the Zika virus. This concern may soon be a thing of the(...)

Surrounded by doctors growing up, medicine wasn’t an unusual career path for Clare Tempany-Afdhal. Four of her father’s siblings are medical profess(...)

As the stigma surrounding mental health is lifted, more people are turning to psychotherapy to help with such problems as stress, anxiety and depressi(...)

Paedophile mice are kept at bay by the tears of their potential victims, research has shown.The tears contain a pheromone signalling chemical that put(...)

Hot chocolate can help older people keep their brains healthy, research has shown.Two cups of cocoa a day boosted blood flow to the brain and improved(...)

Two HIV patients in Boston who received stem-cell transplants for cancer had no trace of the AIDS-causing virus after the procedure, suggesting they m(...)