Amid today’s interparty rancor, health care experts looked back on Monday at more tranquil times — say, December 2016 — when Democrats and Republicans worked together to pass legislation to fight cancer and other diseases, to boost research funding, and to speed potentially life-saving innovations to market. Panelists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
A Cinematic Approach to Drug Resistance
In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists fromHarvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to drugs. The experiments, described in the Sept. 9 issue of Science, are thought to provide the first large-scale glimpse of the maneuvers of bacteria as…
New Approach to Severe Bacterial Infections and Sepsis
Bacterial infections that don’t respond to antibiotics are of rising concern, as is sepsis — the immune system’s last-ditch attack on infection that ends up being lethal itself. Reporting in Nature, researchers at Harvard-affiliated Boston Children’s Hospital describe new potential avenues for controlling both sepsis and the runaway bacterial infections that provoke it. Sepsis kills…