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Abigail S. Gerstein

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Harvard Medical School Postpones Transgender Healthcare Course After Inquiry Into Fee Waiver Legality

Harvard Medical School postponed an online course on transgender healthcare after the National Review, a conservative news outlet, contacted the school about the legality of offering fee waivers to transgender and “gender diverse” participants.


Harvard Medical School Licenses Consumer Health Content to Microsoft for AI Use in New Deal

Harvard Health Publishing, a division of Harvard Medical School that publishes consumer health resources, has agreed to allow Microsoft to use its content on specific diseases and health topics to train its artificial intelligence tool, Copilot.


Harvard Medical School Cancels Student Groups’ Pro-Palestine Vigil

Harvard Medical School canceled a pro-Palestine vigil organized by two recognized student groups on Thursday, alleging the groups violated the school’s campus use rules by distributing and posting event flyers without authorization.


Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli received at least $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in 2023 — two years before he published research used by the Trump administration to link the drug to autism, even though experts say a causal connection remains tenuous at best.


Trump Uses Harvard Public Health School Dean’s Research to Link Tylenol to Autism

Harvard School of Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli met in recent weeks with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’76 and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya to discuss the dean’s study linking acetaminophen to autism, according to a statement by Baccarelli posted on an official White House X account.


Harvard Medical School to Cut 20 Percent of Research Spending, Dean Says in Annual Address

Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 said the University’s central administration had instructed him to cut spending on the Medical School’s research enterprise by at least 20 percent by the end of the fiscal year in his annual State of the School address Wednesday morning.