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Health A dietary swap that could lengthen your life? Study finds replacing butter with plant-based oils cuts premature death risk...

Health Cancer? No, thank goodness, it’s just high cholesterol. Joseph Woo (on screen, from left), Ami Bhatt, Tommaso Danesi, Jorge...

Illustrations by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Health How much sleep do you need? And what you can do to get it...

Health Older adults at highest risk for suicide, yet have fewest resources Study highlights imbalance in targets of online suicide...

Ding Liu (right), a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Catherine Dulac (left). Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Health Food, water...

Kinvard Bio co-founder Ben Tresco inspects a colony of drug-resistant bacteria. Health Harvard startup creating a new class of antibiotics...

Health Eating citrus may lower depression risk Physician-researcher outlines gut-brain clues behind ‘orange a day’ finding Saima Sidik Harvard Correspondent...

Ula Jurkunas performs the first CALEC surgery at Mass Eye and Ear. Photo courtesy of MGH Health New hope for...

Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Health Primary care has money problems. This might help. Physician-researcher sees promise in five-year ‘prospective payment’...

Health Big step toward targeted molecular therapies for cancer Brian Liau. Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Yahya Chaudhry Harvard...