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Sep 18, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Elane Kim |Harvard College

His eyes wash over families of fruit, crushed cardboard, stickyhands. The trick is to be molecular: a watermelon sickwith jaundice is no good, mushy inside. Carries diseaseinternal to itself. Like how cells hold instructionsfor their own death or how birds always know the wayhome. His eyes washed with chemical droplets and stillunseeing. Like light flushed down the sink. Shade of whiteso brutal it could kill you. Choose the roundest, brightestfruit, says Appa.

Jun 21, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Michelle Miao |Harvard College

Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) present a growing public health burden in the United States. One actionable risk factor for ADRD is air pollution: multiple studies have found associations between air pollution and exacerbation of ADRD. Our study builds on previous studies by applying modern statistical causal inference methodologies—generalized propensity score (GPS) weighting and matching—on a large, longitudinal dataset.

May 29, 2024 | pubs.asahq.org | Harvard College

We take a walk by the riverside, the first place you think of after the appointment. You blink slow, then fast. We eat sweet sunlight and marvel at pigeons, sitting with our grief. The pigeons are small and unconcerned. You are small and wingless. We laugh at how our cells come with instructions that they choose not to follow. You, deterministic and still unsure about whether you will wake to see tomorrow. The sleepless waiting room, bare despite our limbs, cavernous despite its windows.

Mar 25, 2024 | link.springer.com | Harvard College

This is a preview of subscription content, to check access. Price excludes VAT (USA) Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout. Instant access to the full article PDF. Rent this article via DeepDyve Data AvailabilityThe data from this study are not available due to lack of participant consent. ReferencesAndermann A. Screening for social determinants of health in clinical care: moving from the margins to the mainstream.

Jan 29, 2024 | link.springer.com | Harvard College

It’s still noon, I say. You laugh, chest heaving, light falling like rain onto your face. It always feels that way, you reply. I want to remember you like this: face moon-tinted, ripe with joy. You and everything you left behind: dresses with the tags still attached, birdfeed left unscattered, four chambers of the stillest heart. A body too loud to be contained by bruise and bone.