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By Savannah Young Back in the 1980s, when Mark Schuster was completing an adult neurology rotation at a Harvard teaching hospital, a woman was brought to the emergency room with urinary incontinence and other symptoms, as well as signs of a herniated disc, including a confirmatory myelogram. She...

By Lauren Massey This June, HMS and HSDM joined people around the state and the world in marking LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) Pride Month. The Schools' newly formed LGBT Advisory Committee created a schedule of events to celebrate Pride Month, educate the community about important...

In celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride month, LAHMS is proud to offer this resource created by first-year Harvard medical student Casey Orozco-Poore for the Racial Justice Coalition's "Essentials" series. In this presentation, you will find more information on the health and identity of transgender people...

The purpose of the MMS LGBTQ Research Grant program is to encourage and incorporate cultural competency training early in medical education to make strides towards improving health care quality, access and equity for LGBTQ patients in the Commonwealth. To that end, the Massachusetts Medical Society...

"Hello! I have a question for the experts: Do any medical organizations have established guidelines against the usage of the term "homosexual"? I know GLAAD, The Associated Press, the NYT and many media sources and universities advise against usage of the term, but do we still use it in a medical...

Attendees at the first Pride on the Quad Day met colleagues and friends from across the Longwood campuses. Read the full story here.

By Aliya Feroe In the weeks preceding Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) Revisit Weekend 2018, the LGBTQ+ and Allies at HMS (LAHMS) group made a clear goal to host a memorable weekend with the goal of 100% matriculation of the admitted self-identified LGBTQ+ students. Despite being a co-chair of LAHMS...

Sabra L. Katz-Wise, PhDOn September 23, 2019, the 20th anniversary of Bi Visibility Day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held its first-ever bisexual health research workshop. As an invited panelist at this event, sponsored by the NIH’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, I joined 19...

For a group of Harvard researchers, communication and intervention are the keys to a new tool designed to reduce bullying of LGBTQ students around the country. According to the most recent information gathered by the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, lesbian, gay and bisexual students are...

A new paper by Jacob Arellano-Anderson, HMS student, and Alex S. Keuroghlian, HMS Associate Professor of Psychiatry, discusses the limitations of current alcohol use disorder (AUD) screening tools for accurately assessing and counseling transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse patients. Abstract...