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1 month ago | 
news.harvard.edu | Alvin Powell
For these researchers, Harvard Forest is a labor of love, and that love is changing.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
Lives have been lost and disrupted, and thousands of homes and businesses have been destroyed as wind-whipped wildfires continue to burn around Los Angeles a week after they began. Mental health professionals expect emotional and psychological wounds will endure long after the blazes have been extinguished.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
The nation's first human death due to the bird flu occurred this month, the latest development in a global outbreak that, while mostly limited to birds and mammals such as minks, polar bears, cows, and domestic cats—has also sickened 67 Americans and has public health officials watching closely for signs that a human pandemic is in the offing.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:Crisper fall weather is descending, signaling the coming end of another mosquito season that this year saw modest outbreaks of West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis. The good news has been that the disease-carrying mosquitoes would rather bite birds than humans, a factor in keeping the maladies relatively rare.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility:The woman came in crying. She was disheveled and pregnant, and appeared to be intoxicated. She had a 5-year-old girl in tow and was looking for help from the crisis center where Anna Shchetinina volunteered. The mother got the help she needed.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
They are said to be our best friends, and a new study suggests the possibility there may in fact be a mental health dividend for pet owners who feel a real bond with Fido. Researchers at Harvard's Nurses' Health Study exploring conflicting findings on whether pet ownership is good for our mental health have found that having—and loving—a dog (sorry, cat people) is associated with lower symptoms of depression and anxiety.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
Researchers may have found a powerful new preventative against the AIDS virus, which has killed more than 40 million people since the epidemic began in 1981. In late June, a trial of lenacapavir, an existing anti-HIV drug used to reduce infection, produced an astonishing result: None of the more than 2,100 young female participants in the test contracted the deadly virus.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
news.harvard.edu | Alvin Powell
Psychologist Kristin Javaras explains what her new research uncovered about the common, but poorly understood, disorder.
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May 6, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
The U.S. opioid epidemic is a story of failed policy initiatives, missed opportunities, and more than 600,000 deaths. It's also a story with no end in sight, and for that, two economists say, we can blame relationships. The central problem owes to the nature of the market, according to David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard, and former Harvard doctoral student J.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Alvin Powell
Catherine Wu has been a pioneer in a promising approach to fight cancer: vaccines that target specific immune-stimulating molecules, known as immunogenic peptides, generated by the distinct genetic mutations of any individual cancer. Wu, Harvard Medical School professor of medicine and Lavine Family Chair for Preventative Cancer Therapies at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was honored in February with the $1 million Sjöberg Prize, given for cancer research.
