Lung cancer kills 130,000 Americans a year—but screening is rare
With an early diagnosis lung cancer is no longer a death sentence. Annual screening could save almost 25,000 lives.
Disease
Here’s how to get COVID boosters into arms this flu season
Only 5% of adults eligible for the new COVID booster have received it. Local health departments can change that.
We’re already ignoring the next pandemic
Superbugs kill more than a million people annually. What are policymakers waiting on?
No time to waste
How Harvard Chan School researchers are taking action on climate change .
Is helping cells self-destruct the key to treating COVID-19?
Radiation biologist Kristopher Sarosiek zeroes in on why the severity of COVID-19 varies so widely.
Winter 2022: Notable news from the world of public health
Updates on vaccines for malaria and HPV, tampons as a human right, how other countries see American health care, and more.
AIDS at 40: The endgame of a global scourge approaches
Phyllis Kanki reflects on the successes and failures of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the work left to do to finally end the disease.
Off the Cuff: Curtis Huttenhower
The co-director of the Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center studies microbial communities starting at the population level.