One in four veterans of the 1991 Gulf War suffer from an illness caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, according to a BUSPH-based research panel. Almost two decades after the war ended, however, no effective treatments have been found. This year’s Pike Conference will explore the post-Gulf War experience of veterans seeking medical help, the problems encountered and concrete advocacy steps that can be taken to improve the quality of care.
Members of Boston University’s (BU) administration along with elected officials from the Boston community will celebrate the groundbreaking for the long-awaited construction of a student residence on Thursday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. at 815 Albany Street on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). The nine-story, $40 million structure is designed by Beacon Architectural Associates […]
Investigators from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have reported that African American women who consume more vegetables are less likely to develop estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer than women with low vegetable intake. The study results, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, were based on data from the Black […]
Join the BUSM Pulmonary Center on Wednesday, Oct. 13, as it hosts distinguished visitor, Dr. Jon C. Aster, MD, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology of Harvard Medical School’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Aster will speak on the biology of Notch, specifically “Notch Signaling in Leukemia.” This seminar will be held […]
Join Stacy Kern-Scheerer, JD, MPH, assistant counsel with the U.S. Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel, as she presents the talk “Roadmap to Reform: The Legislative Process Behind Federal Health Reform” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on Wednesday, October 13 at noon. The U.S. Senate Office of the Legislative Counsel is the nonpartisan office […]
Mental health experts from BU Behavioral Medicine will be on the medical campus to provide depression screenings at BU School of Public Health, Talbot 106 E on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2- 6 p.m. The screening is simple and free, and can help identify if you might be experiencing symptoms of depression, other mood problems, anxiety, […]
Research Associate Professor Dr. Sok-Ja Janket was invited as a special lecturer to the Seoul National University Symposium in early September. The Symposium was a forum to determine the curriculum of epidemiologic education in dental/public health graduate schools. Her lecture was the keynote speech and was titled, “Methodological Issues in Oral and Systemic Health Research.” […]
The stresses of poverty have long been associated with child abuse and neglect. In a study presented Sunday, Oct. 3, at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in San Francisco, researchers directly linked an increased unemployment rate to child maltreatment one year later. “When times are bad, children suffer,” said study […]
Join the BUSM Pulmonary Center on Thursday, Oct. 7, as it hosts distinguished visitor, Vice President for Research and Director of the Lung Cancer/Population Sciences Programs at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center in Albuquerque Steven Belinsky, PhD. Dr. Belinsky will speak on “Epigenetics in Lung Cancer: From the Bench to the Bedside.” This […]
The typical American nurse spends one-third of her day focused not on patient care but on documentation, such as taking computer data and printing it out, only to reenter it in another computer. Only 3 percent of physicians contact their patients by email, “which is smaller than the number of priests who email their parishioners,” according to Harvard economist David Cutler. Those were among the many medical inefficiencies Cutler cited Friday in the School of Public Health’s 11th annual Bicknell Lecture, Controlling Health Care Costs: Your Money or Your Life?