Seasonal Flu and H1N1 Vaccines Will Be Available for Students, Faculty and Staff This message is from the Boston Medical Center Flu Task Force — Boston Medical Center will be offering the seasonal influenza vaccine and H1N1 influenza vaccine to employees, students, licensed independent practitioners (LIPs) and patients over the next several months. All employees, […]
BUSM researchers have discovered a novel mechanism that cells use to regulate gene expression. A type of molecule called microRNA is capable of inhibiting expression of select genes. The study, which was spearheaded by Matthew R. Jones, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine and appears on-line in Nature Cell Biology, shows that a specific enzyme […]
The Androgen Clinical Research Unit (ACRU) at Boston Medical Center in conjunction with Boston University is dedicated to conducting research that advances the understanding of the effects of testosterone administration on various clinical outcomes. The mission at ACRU is to evaluate the effects of testosterone on physical function, sexual function, muscle strength, metabolism, cardiovascular risks, […]
The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) published Research Associate Xiuli Sun’s ORAL BIO 08 abstract titled, “Kinetics of histatin proteolysis in whole saliva and the effect on bioactive domains with metal-binding, antifungal, and wound-healing properties,” in the August 2009 issue. The FASEB Journal publication details research that Dr. Sun […]
The Outreach Van Project (OVP) is in search of physicians to supervise medical efforts on Thursday evenings. OVP does not require any specific physician specialty, skills, or language fluency. The care OVP provides is very basic and anything physicians are not comfortable treating is referred to Boston Medical Center (BMC). The van serves patients in […]
BUSM researchers have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal brain activity when looking at facial expressions of others. The findings, which appear in the August 11 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, confirm that […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have shown that disclosing genetic risk information to adult children of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) who request this information does not result in significant short-term psychological distress. The report from the REVEAL Study*, which appears in the July 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first randomized trial to disclose to participants whether or not they carried the ε4 variant of the APOE gene, a variant that has been found to increase the risk of developing AD.
In the complicated, multi-billion dollar business of Medicare reimbursement, one important consideration — quality — has been neglected when determining what doctors and hospitals get paid for the services they deliver. For nearly 40 years, the federal government has been a passive payer of the medical bills for the nation’s largest health plan, anteing up […]
On July 29, Steve Morash, director of emergency planning and response at Boston University, will lead a seminar on BUMC’s plan for addressing major crises at BU. This is an excellent opportunity for students, staff, faculty and administrators to learn about how the services provided by the schools and hospitals lining Albany Street would respond […]
Rodger Charlton, MD, FRCGP, Associate Clinical Professor in Medical Education and Lead for GP Specialty Teaching at Warwick Medical School, will be speaking at the Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds on the “Patient Journey in the UK National Health Service”. The event will be held on Tuesday, July 28 from 12-1 in the Dowling […]