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.
“Disorder breeds disorder,” read one of the slides that flashed on the screen at the Nov. 18 Public Health Forum, headlined: “Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention.”
A consortium led by the Boston University School of Public Health has been awarded a $1 million federal grant to test and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of Clostridium difficile (or “C.diff”) infections, a stubborn bacterial strain that most commonly affects older adults in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The U.S. Department of […]
American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Associate Executive Director and Director of the ADEA Center for Equity and Diversity Dr. Jeanne C. Sinkford received the 2009 Herbert W. Nickens Award on November 7 at the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) annual meeting. The Herbert W. Nickens Award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions […]