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Fall 2025 December 2025
The Surprising Demographics of Physician Mortality
The Surprising Demographics of Physician Mortality December 2025Women outlive men — but not in medicineFall 2025by Molly McDonough5 minute readFeature In every country in the world, demographic data show that women tend to live longer than men. But that …
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Fact and Fiction in Science and Medicine
Fact and Fiction in Science and Medicine December 2025A commentaryFall 2025by George Q. Daley1 minute readPerspective In the late 1950s, when measles struck about half a million Americans each year, John Enders and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School …
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Pediatricians Adapt to Changing Attitudes Toward Vaccines
Pediatricians Adapt to Changing Attitudes Toward Vaccines December 2025In a new era of parental vaccine hesitancy, how can physicians rebuild trust?Fall 2025by Perri Klass12 minute readPerspective Let me give you two pediatric moments from 2025. Moment …
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Is There a Crisis of Trust in Science and Medicine?
Is There a Crisis of Trust in Science and Medicine? December 2025Surveys of shifting U.S. attitudes reveal concerning trends — and some surprisesFall 2025by Amos Esty8 minute readInterview In April 2020, just a few months after the first documented case …
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Doctors Find Their Voices as Authors of Children’s Books
Doctors Find Their Voices as Authors of Children’s Books December 2025Four alumni share how storytelling can open young readers’ eyes to the possibilities of scienceFall 2025by Jake Miller7 minute readProfile The worlds of surgery, psychiatry, primary …
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Making Digital Tools and Technologies Accessible to All
Making Digital Tools and Technologies Accessible to All December 2025Accessibility is both a health issue and a human right, says Lawrence Weru, MSc ’23Fall 2025by Amos EstyProfile Lawrence Weru, MSc ’23, has devoted his career to building digital tools. …
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5 Questions With a Health Economist
5 Questions With a Health Economist December 2025A conversation with Leila Agha, an associate professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at HMSFall 2025by Amos Esty2 minute readInterview What drew you to economics, and to the economics of …
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Facing Funding Cuts, MD-PhD Students Write Home
Facing Funding Cuts, MD-PhD Students Write Home December 2025Students from Texas and Iowa penned op-eds in hometown papers to spread awareness about threats to scientific researchFall 2025by Amos Esty2 minute readProfile As students in the Harvard/MIT …
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In Memoriam, Autumn 2025
In Memoriam, Autumn 2025 November 2025Fall 2025In Memoriam This listing of deceased alumni includes those whose notices of death were received between April 5, 2025, and October 21, 2025.   1947 Thomas Licciardello, MD  October 3, 2023 1948 William S. …
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Memories of Countway Library
Memories of Countway Library December 2025Alumni share recollections as the medical library turns 60Fall 2025Reflecting on 60 yearsSince its dedication in 1965, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine has been a leading academic health sciences …