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?
Researchers from Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) and have found that individuals who do not speak English at home are less likely to receive colorectal cancer screenings (CRC) as compared to those who do speak English at home. The findings, which currently appear on-line in the Journal of […]
Pharmaceuticals are an emerging contaminant for aquatic ecosystems due to discharge of treated wastewater effluent. Using zebrafish as a model organism, Dr. Joanna Wilson has been testing the developmental, reproductive and transcriptional impacts of four common, environmentally relevant pharmaceuticals. Several of these pharmaceuticals are known to have reproductive side effects in humans. Acetaminophen (pain reliever), […]
Mohammed Nadershah OMFS 11 was recently a passenger on a Lufthansa Boston to Frankfurt, Germany transatlantic flight when disaster struck. An announcement came through the cabin asking for any doctors on board to help with a medical emergency. Armed with the experience he had gained as a resident in the Boston University Henry M. Goldman […]
What will happen to the cost of health care under the Obama Administration’s new national health care law? Hear leading experts discuss this topic and others regarding controlling health care costs as part of the 2010 William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health “Controlling Health Care Costs: Your Money or Your Life?” at Boston University School of Public Health.
The event will be held on Friday, Oct. 1, from 9 a.m. to noon, on the first floor auditorium of 670 Albany St., on the Boston University Medical Campus. A continental breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.
This message was sent to all faculty, students and staff on BUMC on Friday, September 24, 2010 Today is National Post-Doc Appreciation day and I am delighted to announce that we are launching an office on the medical campus that will be focused on support of this critical constituency of Boston University. The Office of […]
David Sherr, PhD, a professor of environmental health at Boston University School of Public Health, has been named a recipient of Boston University’s highly sought-after Ignition Award, which he will use toward the development of a drug to prevent and treat breast cancer. Ignition Awards are presented to four BU researchers twice a year by […]
There will be doctors in the house—as well as nurses and medical and public health students—for tonight’s eclectic program of jazz, blues, pop, and Latin music to benefit the Boston Medical Center Food Pantry . And if last year’s sold-out collaboration between the BU Medical Campus Band and Berklee College of Music musicians was any […]