On Wednesday, February 10, join Barbara Mahon, MD, MPH, at the BUSPH Public Health Forum as she speaks about “What Not to Eat: Foodborne Illness Update 2010.” Her presentation will give an overview of the current situation in foodborne illness, such as infectious diseases like salmonellosis, and then discuss how researchers know what foods are […]
George Huang may just kill off the Tooth Fairy. Not to mention the makers of dental implants and crowns.
The Herbert Schilder Chair in Endodontics and director of the postdoctoral program in endodontics at the School of Dental Medicine says there are valuable dental stem cells residing in baby teeth and third molars, also known as wisdom teeth. The cells remain viable for about a week after extraction if stored under the right conditions, but are at maximum potency just after they are removed. The dental stem cells from the discarded teeth can be used to regrow damaged or decayed parts of a mature tooth.
Boston resident Michele David, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, an immigrant from Haiti, has received the 2010 William A. Hinton Award. David was selected by Public Health Commissioner Dr. John Auerbach to receive this award in recognition of her many years of activism, commitment to public health and tireless work to educate others in order that […]
Associate Professors Dr. Hatice Hasturk and Dr. I. Alpdogan Kantarci were both named Diplomates of the American Board of Periodontology in 2009. Dr. Hasturk received her certification in May and Dr. Kantarci completed his in November. The certification process involved comprehensive qualifying and oral examinations covering all phases of periodontal disease and its treatment, including […]
Join Lewis Kazis, professor of health policy and management, as he presents his research “Comparative Effectiveness Research: Fact or Fiction?” at the BUSPH Faculty Research Symposium on Wednesday, January 27 at noon in BUSM Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street, Room L-112. Members of the BUSPH community are invited to attend the Faculty Research Symposium […]
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have determined how the TGFβ-Smad signaling pathway, which is over activated in late-stage cancers, is responsible for the “epigenetic memory” that maintains unique patterns of regulatory DNA hypermethylation causing silencing of critical genes that facilitate breast cancer progression. The findings, which appear online in Cancer Research, […]
A bone marrow registry is being held through the Be The Match Marrow Registry on Monday, January 25 from 11:30 am – 3 pm in the BUSM Instructional Building, room L-109A/B. A simple cheek swab is all that is needed to determine if you can help one of the thousands of patients in need of […]
In the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in Haiti’s recorded history, dozens of BU’s medical and public health students, doctors, and nurses have been scrambling for ways to join the relief effort. But for at least for the next few months, said Monica Onyango, a School of Public Health international public health lecturer, most would be far more useful if they worked from home.
Paul Tornetta III, MD, a professor and vice chairman in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at Boston Medical Center, is the recipient of the 2010 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s (OREF) Clinical Research Award. Tornetta received the recognition for the paper, “Setting […]
As an infectious disease specialist, Dr. David Hamer, an associate professor of international health at the BU School of Public Health, deals in people, not percentages. Still, when it comes to child mortality, the numbers weigh on Hamer’s mind. In the plus column, the number of children who die before their fifth birthdays each year […]