When Dr. Roger Glass traveled to Zanzibar in 2007 with a U.S. delegation that included Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, he got a lesson in the importance of the long-term sustainability of global health initiatives.
The lesson came courtesy of Zanzibar’s minister of health, who announced to the delegation that his country had eradicated malaria — for the third time. Malaria had been eliminated twice before, in 1950 and 1980, but those anti-malaria programs had not been sustained, leaving an opening for the disease to emerge, yet again.
A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks. In this study, just published in Circulation Research, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have demonstrated for the first time that short elevations in […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the α-endomannosidase (MANEA) gene are associated with cocaine addiction and cocaine-induced paranoia in European American and African American populations. These findings appear in the March issue of the […]
Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at non-teaching hospitals, but these better survival rates occur in white patients, not black patients, according to a study co-authored by a BUSPH researcher.
“Survival after surgery is higher at hospitals with higher teaching intensity,” according to the study, which appears in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery and was co-authored by Amy Rosen, a professor of Health Policy & Management at BUSPH and director of risk assessment and patient safety for the VA’s Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research in Bedford, Mass.
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) members of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) traveled to Washington, DC in February to participate in National Dental Student Lobby Day, an event co-sponsored by the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and ASDA. Trip participants included ASDA Co-Legislative Liaisons Brian Nelson DMD 10 and Derrick Call […]
On March 11, join Roger Glass, MD, PhD, at the SPH Public Health Forum as he speaks on the topic, “Global Health in the Twenty-first Century: New Directions and Perspectives.” The Public Health Forum is a regular series hosted by the BU School of Public Health. Roger Glass, MD, PhD Glass is director of the […]
Focus on medical school curriculum development in Armenia Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has received an initial grant of $260,000 from the Lincy Foundation to support a curriculum development project at the Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU) in Armenia. The project will develop a framework to make medical education in Armenia comparable to that […]
People who have parents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia perform less well on formal memory testing when compared to people of the same age whose parents never developed Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. This is true even in middle-aged persons who do not have a diagnosis of clinical stroke or dementia, according to a Boston University […]
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine Professor Maria Kukuruzinska, PhD, recently served as Session Leader at the Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands & Exocrine Secretion held February 8-13 in Galveston, Texas. During the conference she was also elected Co-Vice Chair of the newly renamed 2011 Gordon Conference on Salivary Glands & Exocrine Biology, […]
Are You Prepared? Boston University’s new Masters degree program in Healthcare Emergency Management (HEM) is training first responders in public health, public safety and the medical field with new skills and knowledge to be ready for the next crisis. Attend an open house on Thursday, February 26, 5-7pm; Friday, February 27, 5-7pm; Saturday, February 28, […]