An emergency management exercise will be taking place in Bakst auditorium on Dec. 19, 1-6 p.m. Response activity may be visible from the areas adjacent to the Bakst including the Instructional building lobby, the hallway between the lobby and Bakst and rooms L109, L110, L111, L112. This drill is the final examination for two GMS […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have published a study identifying a better method for grading endoscopists, physicians who perform colonoscopies. Their findings were recently published online in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Through screening colonoscopies, endoscopists are able to identify and remove pre-cancerous adenomas, ultimately reducing the rate […]
The Peace Corps has gone through myriad changes since its founding in 1961, adapting to issues of the times ranging from AIDS to education to new market economies. But one thing hasn’t changed, according to Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet: “It is, without question, for most people, the best thing they ever did.” Hessler-Radelet […]
On Dec. 11, BU will be conducting a discussion-based exercise at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). Researchers, facility staff, local health officials and first responders will be testing and reviewing the response to a variety of medical incident scenarios. This exercise is part of the NEIDL’s ongoing safety and training program. Participants of […]
Zhi Liu, PhD, Professor of Dermatology, Microbiology and Immunology, Director of Dermatology Laboratories, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will be speaking on BP180/type XVII Collagen in Skin Autoimmunity and Tumorigenesis. For the past sixteen years, Dr. Liu has focused his research on understanding the immunopathogenesis of bullous pemphigoid using animal models developed […]
BUSM’s Office of Continuing Medical Education (CME) has completed two accreditation reviews and one random audit as part of our external evaluation process with the following results: The Accrediting Council of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) – “Accreditation with Commendation.” The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) – “Accreditation with Distinction, the highest recognition awarded by the […]
Jack W. Szostak, PhD, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Howard Hughes Investigator, who together with colleagues was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of how telomeres protect chromosomes, will be speaking […]
The Fall 2012 Thematic Seminar Series, which focuses on the Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease, concludes on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. with a presentation on Guarding the genome: centromeres, aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. This lecture is being given by Don W. Cleveland, PhD, Departmental Chair of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences […]
The youngest weren’t even old enough to drink legally—six high school football players who developed the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) before dying. Their brains were among 68 cases in a new, largest-of-its kind study that describes for the first time four progressive stages of CTE. Published today in the journal Brain, the […]
In a perspective article appearing in the Nov. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM and BUSPH) report that health-care providers can play a critical role in helping to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by screening and referring patients to […]