New from Harvard Health

• Making sense of new breast cancer screening guidelines

  Updated breast cancer screening guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force have sparked a debate about how best to use the special breast x-rays known as mammograms. The debate is likely to continue as more information comes... Read more »

• Untreated mental health problems may hinder workplace productivity

  Mental health problems affect many working people. Yet they often escape notice because these disorders tend to be hidden on the job. Mood symptoms, for example, can masquerade as physical problems such as irritability and sleep disturbances.... Read more »

• 4 steps to treat common exercise injuries

  Exercise is better for health than any pill or potion. One long-term benefit is a lower risk of disability later in life. Yet exercise has a small downside: people who exercise sometime injure themselves, reports the February 2010 issue of Harvard... Read more »

• Early factors predict later-life stroke risk

  We tend to attribute strokes and heart attacks to genetic factors and adult behaviors. Yet there are some clues that the groundwork for cardiovascular troubles is laid early in life—perhaps even before birth, reports the February 2010 issue of... Read more »

• On-pump and off-pump bypass surgery yield same results

  Off-pump bypass surgery, or "beating heart surgery," was developed in hopes of creating a safer way to fix cholesterol-clogged coronary arteries. But a major new study suggests that off-pump bypass surgery doesn’t quite measure up to the... Read more »

• Treating glaucoma, the “thief of sight”

  Glaucoma is sometimes called the “silent thief of sight” because it creeps up unnoticed in its early stages. The attack, when it finally comes, damages vision. Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness, threatening one in 50 people over... Read more »