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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 …
Spring 2024 May 2024
What Computer Vision Models Reveal About Human Brains
What Computer Vision Models Reveal About Human Brains May 2024AI models designed to identify objects offer surprising clues about how we see and how we learnSpring 2024by Molly McDonough6 min readInterview About 10 years ago, as computing power and the …