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By M.R.F. Buckley When Neal Baer was attending Harvard Medical School in the 1990s, he says there were only two out gay students in his class and next to nothing was ever mentioned about LGBTQ health. Baer received his degree in 1996 and became a pediatrician, an adjunct professor of preventive...

Dean Cestari, MD , Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Director of Ophthalmology Clinical Fellowship Training at Mass. Eye and Ear, and Lotfi Merabet, OD, PhD, MPH , Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at HMS, were both selected to receive the prestigious HMS...

"There are a lot of misconceptions about health related to sexual and gender minority people," said Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, director of the National LGBT Health Education Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. "There's a lack of training of clinicians in this area, and both patients...

On Monday afternoon, the founders teamed up with the Tegan and Sara Foundation and Harvard Medical School’s LGBT program director, Jessica Halem, to talk healthcare with LGBTQ people and medical providers from around the world using the hashtag #QueerandCaredfor. Tegan and Sara are Canadian twin...

Laura De Lima Xavier, MD, will be presenting a poster entitled "Differences in Brain Activity among Different Voice Tremor Phenotypes" at the 1st International Tremor Congress at Columbia University, New York, May 11-12, 2018.

Researchers at TRACTS have been able to control for the veterans’ common comorbidities, such as sleep disorders, PTSD and chronic pain, to tease out the impact of blast exposure on brain physiology and function. Click here to read the full article in U.S. Medicine.

This paper, " Mixed-model association for biobank-scale datasets" (Loh et al. 2018 Nat Genet), explores best practices for genome-wide association analyses in very large cohorts.

A recent article published in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery showed evidence that 1 in 7 children in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have signs of hearing loss that could be attributed to noise exposure from portable music players (PMPs). The association of PMP use with hearing loss has...

Laura de Lima Xavier, MD, presented her latest study on environmental factors for developing spasmodic dysphonia, which showed that stressors influencing the sensory feedback from the larynx and upper respiratory tract represent major risk factors and are associated with abnormal cortical...

Zhongxiao (Iris) Wang, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, recevied a $65,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Career-Starter Grant from the Knights Templar Eye Foundation. With support from this award, Dr. Wang will work under the mentorship of Jing Chen, PhD, to...