Rhoda M. Alani, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology, Herbert Mescon Chair and professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of the Department of Dermatology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She will assume these positions in January 2010. Prior to these appointments, Alani was a faculty […]
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) is now on Twitter. Follow us @budental. For those of you without a Twitter account you can view budental tweets at our public page, http://twitter.com/budental, without signing up. We also want to know if you use Twitter. Please answer our quick poll on the GSDM […]
While other cities have adopted bans on alcohol advertising on public transit systems, Boston’s MBTA is allowing youths to be exposed heavily to such ads, some of which are designed to entice young people to drink, a new study by a team of Boston University School of Public Health researchers shows. The study, published online […]
On Wednesday, November 18, join Debra Furr-Holden, assistant professor in the Mental Health Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as she presents a talk on “Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol, and Other Drug Prevention.” Her presentation will look at the geographic distribution and determinants of violence, alcohol and other drug problems, […]
On November 6, the Boston University chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) hosted a Success seminar given by Dr. Robert Madden titled, “Practice Management for Seniors.” Dr. Madden is an experienced family dentist with a DDS degree from the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry and a MBA from the University of Colorado. […]
The Genome Science Institute held its inaugural Research Symposium, an interdisciplinary research symposium that explores genetic and genomic science, in the Boston University Medical Campus Hiebert Lounge on Thursday, Oct. 8. Sixty-three abstracts were submitted by students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty from Institutions throughout the Boston area. Prizes were awarded in undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral […]
A study by BU School of Public Health researchers, published ahead of print in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) may affect serum cholesterol levels in people. The authors analyzed the relationship between serum concentrations of four PFCs-perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorohexane sulfonic acid […]
Osamu Shimomura, PhD, BUSM Professor Emeritus and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will address the BU Medical Campus community on November 17, 2009. He will speak on “Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP: My Nobel Prize Lecture.”
Boston University Alumni Weekend ’09 was held Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25 and featured events for alumni from every school. This year, for the first time, combined events were held for all three schools on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). The William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health kicked things off on […]
A researcher at the BU School of Medicine became ill last weekend after being infected with the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which he had been studying in a BioSafety Level 2 laboratory. MED spokespeople say the researcher, whose identity has not been disclosed, does not have meningitis, but is infected with a bacterium that can cause the disease. Thomas Moore, Medical Campus associate provost for clinical research, says the researcher is responding well to antibiotics and is expected to make a full recovery.
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