Ronald Killiany, PhD, the director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CBI) at Boston University Medical Campus has been appointed director of the Multimodal Whole Animal Imaging Core at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University (NEIDL). Killiany also serves as associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University […]
Research on the quality of US resident physician performance levels has often been limited by lack of a comparison group or strict focus on specific diseases and geographical areas. In order to gain insight on differences in quality of care provided by resident physicians and staff physicians, Boston Medical Center (BMC) researchers investigated performance of […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) DMD students enjoyed a pizza luncheon on the last day of their second year. This annual event, sponsored by the Alumni Association, was held immediately following the students’ last exam, Oral Biology II. The party also celebrated the students’ entrance into third year where they […]
More than 75 million Americans suffer with chronic pain. Pain accounts for 20 percent of all outpatient visits, over $100 billion dollars per year in direct and indirect costs while analgesics account for 12 percent of all prescriptions. In an effort to provide generalist physicians with the most current literature and data on chronic pain […]
Women who report greater use of cleaning products may be at higher breast cancer risk than those who say they use them sparingly, according to a study co-authored by Boston University Professor and Associate Chair of Epidemiology Ann Aschengrau. Aschengrau and colleagues from the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, Mass., carried out telephone interviews with […]
The news from Vienna is not all gloom and doom. As 25,000 representatives from the fields of health care, research, business, government, and human rights converged on the Austrian capital for the 18th International AIDS Conference this week, there has been much to celebrate, despite a worldwide increase of nearly 3 million HIV-infected people each […]
When gum tissue grows over the teeth, it’s called gingival overgrowth, and it puts people at risk for gum disease and oral infections, interferes with chewing, and is painful. While it happens for different reasons, drug-induced gingival overgrowth is a well-known side effect of medications including the anti-seizure drug phenytoin, the immunosuppressant cyclosporin A, and […]
A new study co-authored by Boston University School of Public Health researchers shows that people with Alzheimer’s disease who have large heads have better memory and thinking skills than those with the disease who have smaller heads, even when they have the same amount of brain cell death due to the disease. Professors of Biostatistics […]
The half dozen white coats sweep briskly down stairs and through halls at Boston Medical Center. The leader, Muhammad Syed, is very familiar with this tiled, fluorescent-lit honeycomb: he’s a “hospitalist,” medicine’s newest specialty, a doctor who treats patients only here, not in an office. After leading his team on rounds, Syed peels away for […]
On July 8, DMD students entering the third year completed what has become a rite of passage: Pain Control. Clinical Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Predoctoral Clinical Education Dr. John Guarente praised students for their professionalism and called the day “a fun experience for all”. The exercise, part of clinical orientation, asks students to […]