For more than 20 years, researchers from BUSM, under the direction of Mary Jo Murnane, have been working to identify and characterize markers that can either diagnose cancer at an early stage or better predict cancer outcomes. Such tumor markers may also prove useful in the design of new cancer therapies. The International Journal of […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Student Research Group (SRG) met with student research groups from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine on Friday, November 13 at Harvard. Two students from each school presented their research during the event. From GSDM Sheede Khalil DMD 12 […]
BU’s Center for Global Health and Development, based at the School of Public Health, has won an $8.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project that will test simple, low-cost methods that could save many of the 4 million newborns who die each year in the world’s poorest countries. The […]
On Wednesday, December 9, join Lindsay Farrer, PhD, chief of the Genetics Program at BU School of Medicine, as he presents the talk “Personalized Genetic Medicine…Are We There Yet? The Alzheimer’s Experience” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum. Farrer, whose research mainly focuses on Alzheimer’s disease, is also a professor of medicine, neurology, genetics and […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based on the Black Women’s Health Study, appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Uterine fibroids are benign tumors […]
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, Director of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Director of the Geriatric Dentistry Fellowship Program at GSDM Dr. Paula Friedman led a delegation of 14 dentists from across the US to St. Petersberg, Russia and Warsaw and Krakow, Poland as part of the People to People Ambassador Program. The purpose of the […]
Climate change is “the most important public health issue of the coming generation,” according to BUSPH Environmental Health Professor Dick Clapp, who helped to plan a November fundraising event called “Boston Night to Combat Climate Change.” In an interview available on YouTube, Clapp discusses the challenges of educating the American public – and his own […]
BUSM students Katie Spina, Andrea Girnius, John Cuaron and Joanna Ng are featured in the December 2009 Boston Magazine Best Doctors issue. Their story is titled The Doctors Are In (progress). Click on the BUSM student names above to see them and read each story.
The practice of force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay raises serious ethical questions about the role of physicians that need to be resolved at an official level, BUSPH Professor George Annas asserts in a new essay in The Lancet journal. Annas, chair and professor of health law, bioethics & human rights, writes about two new […]
Osamu Shimomura stood quietly in front of a Medical Campus audience yesterday, slender shoulders slouched forward, eyes gazing down.