A new road map for living with COVID, produced by some of the most prominent national experts on the disease, emphasizes boosting indoor air quality, helping people with long COVID, and broadening the nation’s focus to other respiratory diseases.
The Food and Drug Administration should put renewed emphasis on its underused food-regulatory powers, according to a STAT opinion piece.
Although vitamins are an important part of overall health, new research suggests that they don’t play a large role in protecting against COVID-19.
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that local or regional vaccine production is necessary to even the playing field for low-income countries vying for COVID-19 vaccines.
Harvard Chan School’s Leonard Marcus said that, even with COVID-19 cases decreasing, wearing masks during air travel is still a good idea.
Two decades ago, a landmark report called Unequal Treatment, from the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, found that systemic racism was a major reason why people of color in the U.S. experience poorer health outcomes and higher premature death rates than white Americans.
Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.
Some of the sickest and most vulnerable patients in the U.S. qualify for both the Medicare and Medicaid programs. But navigating the complex and confusing rules and regulations of the two programs can be daunting, according to Harvard Chan School’s Jose Figueroa.
People could potentially add years to their lives by switching from a typical Western diet—high in animal products and sugar—to a more plant-based diet.
Experiencing sexual violence or workplace sexual harassment may raise a woman’s long-term risk of developing high blood pressure compared to women who have not experienced these traumatic events.
