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The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing

The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing August 2024Is more information better when it comes to prenatal screening?Summer 2024by Molly McDonough7 min readInterview When Vardit Ravitsky was pregnant at age forty, a routine screening test revealed a 1-in-40 …
Summer 2024 August 2024

What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You

What a Polygenic Risk Score Can and Can’t Tell You August 2024Scientists 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.Summer 2024Research at RiskContinued …
Uncertainty

Uncertainty Learning to cope with medicine’s many unknowns Summer 2024 August 2024 The Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Testing Is more information better when it comes to prenatal screening? Ethics Genetics Women’s Health Interview Summer 2024 August 2024 What …
Climate in the Clinic

Climate in the Clinic All articles …
Summer 2024 July 2024

Navigating the Uncertainties of Medicine

Navigating the Uncertainties of Medicine July 2024Embracing the unknown isn’t easy for either patients or doctors. HMS researchers are trying to help.Summer 2024by Amos Esty9 min readFeature In the early 2000s, Gordon Schiff set out to answer a nagging …
Summer 2024 July 2024

Helping Patients Cope with Fear of Cancer Recurrence

Helping Patients Cope with Fear of Cancer Recurrence July 2024Psychologist Daniel Hall talks about understanding and managing the uncertainty that comes with a cancer diagnosisSummer 2024by Amos Esty6 min readInterview For many cancer survivors, normal …
Summer 2024 July 2024

How a Warming Climate Wears on the Skin

How a Warming Climate Wears on the Skin July 2024Singularly vulnerable to climate change, the body’s largest organ also offers ways to detect dangerSummer 2024by Stephanie Dutchen5 min readClimate in the Clinic Last summer, as smoke from wildfires in …
Summer 2024 July 2024

Alumni Experiences Beyond the Classroom

Alumni Experiences Beyond the Classroom July 2024If you took time off before or during your years as an HMS student, how did you spend that time?Summer 2024Share Your InsightsHarvard Medicine magazine is collecting answers from HMS alumni for future …
Spring 2024 June 2024

Making Sense of Interoception

Making Sense of Interoception June 2024How we perceive what’s happening inside our bodies and what that means for our healthSpring 2024Research at RiskContinued funding uncertainty jeopardizes promising HMS research advances. Learn More by Molly …
Summer 2024 June 2024

Clinical Humility and the Limits of Medical Knowledge

Clinical Humility and the Limits of Medical Knowledge June 2024Being willing to say “I don’t know” can help physicians build trust with patients and one anotherSummer 2024by Sachin Jain5 min readPerspective A friend of mine has thyroid cancer. He went to …

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