The Public Health Practice Office and students of Boston University School of Public Health recently got a special nod for their help in Boston’s 2009-2010 H1N1 flu prevention and vaccination campaign. At a special event held June 30 at City Hall, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Commissioner of the Boston Public Health Commission Barbara […]
While environment and family history are factors in healthy aging, genetic variants play a critical and complex role in conferring exceptional longevity, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and the Boston Medical Center. In a study released July 1 online by […]
The Beantown-‘Skeeter Beaters have done it again. For the fourth year running, Boston University School of Public Health’s Beantown ‘Skeeter-beater Tetra-peaters have placed first in the annual Madness Against Malaria fundraising competition. Altogether they raised $3,910 to purchase 888 insecticide-treated bed nets for distribution in malaria-stricken regions around the world. The international charity event pits […]
Record Number of Volunteers Participate in Healthy Athletes® Special Smiles® Initiative Athletes at the June 19, Special Olympic Massachusetts Games received more than just a chance at a gold medal, thanks to volunteers from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM). Along with members of other area dental and hygiene schools, GSDM […]
A meeting to discuss new coverage and payment procedures that will take effect on July 1, in the treatment centers at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) was held on June 15. In response to the MassHealth coverage cuts, GSDM has resurrected and restructured a program that was created the last […]
The Boston University School of Public Health students enrolled in this summer’s IH 744: Design & Implementation of International Health Programs course may have completed their class assignments and turned in their final projects, but their work may not be done just yet. For the course, students partnered with Circle of Health International (COHI), a […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Associate Professor of Periodontology & Oral Biology Dr. Eva Helmerhorst received a R01 award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on June 1. Her research, titled “Gastro-intestinal Microbes Degrading Dietary Gluten,” is […]
Almost immediately after last January’s deadly earthquake in Haiti, physician volunteers began pouring into that country to offer help — with no promise of immunity from liability. That’s one example cited by BUSPH Professor George Annas, chair of health law, bioethics and human rights, in a newly published article in The New England Journal of […]
Boston Medical Center (BMC) will consolidate its two emergency departments on July 12, merging the services of the Newton Pavilion Emergency Department (ED) into the Menino Pavilion ED. BMC EDs had more than 135,400 patient visits last year – 117,000 in the Menino ED and 18,400 in the Newton ED. An expansion project recently was […]
This response is from BUMC Provost, BUSM Dean Karen Antman, MD Yesterday, an article was released in the Annals of Internal Medicine by Mullan, et al., titled, “The Social Mission of Medical Education: Ranking the Schools” that “ranked” on a scale according to the extent to which they graduate doctors who practice primary care, work in […]