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Care Costs More in Consolidated Health Systems
February 1, 2023 | Promise of quality increase, price drop for comparable services not realized, study shows.
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Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
January 17, 2023 | Diversifying clinical trials could build trust in new treatments among Black people and their physicians.
Read story![HMS Dean Joan Reede with the 2022 summer interns at the Visiting Research Internship Program’s closing ceremony.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/VRIP-group-shot-Joan-Reede.png)
Building Equity in Biomedical Research
January 5, 2023 | Intensive summer program kindles next-gen diversity in clinical, translational sciences.
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Can AI Transform The Way We Discover New Drugs?
December 20, 2022 | HMS-led team designs AI platform to optimize drug discovery.
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The Next Frontier of Meditation Science
December 6, 2022 | The director of Mass General and Harvard Medical School’s Meditation Research Program discusses his study of advanced practitioners of meditation.
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New Tools for Preventing the Next Pandemic
November 8, 2022 | Panel of experts speak at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Lessons for Modern Medicine from Race-Based X-Rays
October 25, 2022 | 1968 controversy provides insight for building more equitable health systems.
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Approach to Demystify Black Box AI Not Ready for Prime Time
October 10, 2022 | Research suggests that compared with human clinicians, image heat maps underperform and require further refinement.
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