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For a disease afflicting 35.5 million people in the U.S., chronic kidney disease flies under the radar. Only half the people who have it are formally diagnosed. The consequences of advanced chronic ...

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For over two decades, I have worked to harness big data to uncover the root causes of chronic diseases, such as cancers. I also worked to create models that can guide individuals, physicians, and ...

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For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which can cause or worsen cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and other ...

It turns out that, at least on Martha's Vineyard, it is the shrews who harbor the most disease-bearing young ticks, says Heidi Goethert, Sc.D., J93, research assistant professor at Cummings School.

Kennedy, who has a history of vaccine skepticism, made the remarks after visiting the family of an unvaccinated 8-year-old girl who died from the disease.