In the late 1980s, a bright teenager walked the halls of St. Columba’s School in New Delhi with a quiet intensity. Siddhartha Mukherjee wasn’t your usual top student, he was the kind of mind that lingered on questions longer, looked for patterns where others saw facts, and found poetry even in biology. In 1989, he…
Harvard campus unions demand transparency and inclusion to protect jobs and students’ education. As Harvard University grapples with sweeping federal funding cuts and growing political scrutiny, its five largest campus unions have jointly urged the administration to adopt a more inclusive approach to governance: one that protects not only university workers, but also the academic…
As President Trump and his team dialed up the pressure on Harvard University last month, threatening to bar its international students, the school issued what was at once a warning and a plea. “Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” school officials wrote in a lawsuit asking a judge to stop the federal government’s…
Harvard Medical School: अमेरिका के मैसाचुसेट्स स्थित हार्वर्ड मेडिकल स्कूल के एक पूर्व मैनेजर पर मरे हुए लोगों के शरीर के अंगों की ब्लैक मार्केट में तस्करी करने का आरोप लगा है. आरोपी पूर्व मैनेजर सेड्रिक लॉज ने इस बात को स्वीकार भी कर लिया है कि उसने हार्वर्ड मेडिकल स्कूल के शवगृह से इंसानों…
A shift in the atmosphere Ms. Petrova’s return flight from Paris landed in Boston on the evening of Feb. 16. As the plane sat on the tarmac, she texted back and forth with Dr. Peshkin, trying to confirm how she should handle the package in customs. But by then, the passengers were already filing off…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spoken of an “existential threat” that he said can destroy the nation. “We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world,” Mr. Kennedy said at a hearing in January before the Senate confirmed him as the secretary of Health and Human Services. And on Monday he…
Kilmer S. McCully, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s and ’70s whose colleagues banished him to the basement for insisting — correctly, it turned out — that homocysteine, an amino acid, was being overlooked as a possible risk factor for heart disease, died on Feb. 21 at his home in Winchester, Mass….
Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal research grants that were abruptly…
Applying to Harvard Medical School (HMS) is a dream for many aspiring physicians, but the path to securing a seat is as rigorous as it is rewarding. With thousands of applicants vying for a limited number of spots, thorough preparation is critical, not just academically, but holistically. The challenges of medical school admissions in the…