Blaze
For years, there had been a bug in Lupita’s hair. She had bought the cheap implant as a medical student, and it hadn’t interacted well with her biomonitor or immune-system booster. As well as changing colour on demand, like they
Beyond the Hype – Bringing AI to Radiology
For radiologists, detecting abnormalities in medical images can be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. It can take hours for radiologists to go through a single scan, and there are a limited number of medical professionals trained
Misinformation on WhatsApp – A Coronavirus Catalyst
“Breaking News: Scientists discover inhaling steam is a cure for coronavirus.” A few weeks ago, this message appeared on my phone’s screen. It was a forwarded message on WhatsApp from a relative in India. A quick Google search revealed that
Mitigating Misinformation
In the words of the World Health Organization’s director-general, the world is currently fighting not only a pandemic, but also an “infodemic.” Approximately 46,000 tweets per day were linked to inaccurate information in March 2020 alone. With anger and anxiety
We have the tools for privacy. Why don’t we use them?
Your data isn’t private, even if it’s anonymous. In 2006, AOL publicly released 20 million anonymized search logs. That same year, Netflix released 100 million anonymized movie ratings of its users. In both cases, researchers were able to re-identify the
Not Alone: The Emergence of Digital Altruism During COVID-19
As COVID-19 forces us to restructure nearly every aspect of our daily lives, many of us have found ourselves searching for meaningful ways to spend our time. As Harvard College first-year and HTR editor Nikhil Dharmaraj put it, “I was
Data in UK’s National Health Service
In March, at the dawn of the COVID-19’s assault on the US, the Department for Health and Human Services finalized two rules designed to give patients access to their electronic health records (EHR) and improve interoperability [1]. Getting the electronic
Cellular Personhood in the Age of Biotech
After a year and a half of pipetting, running gels, and peering through microscopes, I finally submitted my undergraduate thesis last month. In it, I was looking at the role that particular proteins played in driving inflammatory bowel disease, a
HTR’s Reflection on COVID-19
Introduction Hi everyone, We know that the announcement on the morning of March 10th instructing us to leave campus shattered many of us. Over the past few weeks, we’ve all been adjusting to a new life of social distancing and virtual interaction
The Crown Education Challenge
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford and Harvard students launched the Crown Education Challenge, a global contest for K-12 students backed by Professor Tina Seelig, Lisa Solomon, and other notable educators and thought leaders. In response to the countless