Harvard is planning to offer a dozen new online courses in the 2013-14 school year through HarvardX—the University’s branch of…

A reduction in two modifiable risk factors for intestinal-type noncardia gastric adenocarcinoma (NCGA)—infection with the bacteria Helicobacter pylori and smoking—are…

Distracted driving plays a role in thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries each year. And despite near-universal…

A new study on the ongoing conflict in Sudan—combining satellite imagery, public reports, and online videos—reveals that the scope of…

More than 5% of U.S. teens and adolescents use snuff, chewing tobacco, or dipping tobacco—and that rate has been about…

When it comes to using new technology in education, “the trick is not to adopt, but to adapt,” Harvard School…

Patient safety expert Lucian Leape has called for the creation of a federal agency to compel safer hospital practices. He…

Eric McNulty and Leonard Marcus of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of Harvard’s School of Public…

In a study dubbed the “Oregon Health Insurance Experiment,” researchers compared clinical outcomes among two groups of adults in Oregon—half…

The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured 264—20 critically—but every patient who was transported to…