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Autumn 2024 October 2024
How Gender Bias in Medicine Has Shaped Women’s Health
Elizabeth Comen untangles the legacy of myths and misconceptions surrounding women’s bodies
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Autumn 2024 October 2024
A Biomedical Researcher on AI's Promises and Pitfalls
A conversation with Marinka Zitnik, assistant professor of biomedical informatics in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS
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Autumn 2024 October 2024
Building Better Obstetric Care in Africa
Sierra Washington’s path from medical school to Mozambique
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Autumn 2024 October 2024
Who or What Has Made You the Physician or Scientist You Are Today?
HMS alumni reflect on the mentors and mindsets that shaped their careers
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Summer 2024 August 2024
The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing
Is more information better when it comes to prenatal screening?
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Summer 2024 August 2024
What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You
Scientists have made great strides in predicting the genetic risk of common diseases. Figuring out what to do with that information may be just as hard.
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Summer 2024 July 2024
Navigating the Uncertainties of Medicine
Embracing the unknown isn’t easy for either patients or doctors. HMS researchers are trying to help.
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Summer 2024 July 2024
How a Warming Climate Wears on the Skin
Singularly vulnerable to climate change, the body’s largest organ also offers ways to detect danger
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Summer 2024 July 2024
Helping Patients Cope with Fear of Cancer Recurrence
Psychologist Daniel Hall talks about understanding and managing the uncertainty that comes with a cancer diagnosis
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Summer 2024 July 2024
Alumni Experiences Beyond the Classroom
If you took time off before or during your years as an HMS student, how did you spend that time?
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Summer 2024 June 2024
Clinical Humility and the Limits of Medical Knowledge
Being willing to say “I don’t know” can help physicians build trust with patients and one another
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Spring 2024 June 2024
Making Sense of Interoception
How we perceive what’s happening inside our bodies and what that means for our health
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Spring 2024 May 2024
What Computer Vision Models Reveal About Human Brains
AI models designed to identify objects offer surprising clues about how we see and how we learn
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Spring 2024 May 2024
The Limits of Computer Vision, and of Our Own
In fields such as radiology, AI models can help compensate for the shortcomings of human vision but have weaknesses of their own
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