President Obama’s father was an alcoholic whose drunken driving killed a friend and put the elder Obama in the hospital with two broken legs. That unfortunate bit of history may help explain the White House’s interest in addiction, which includes honoring BU addiction expert Daniel Alford with a visit there on August 5. Alford (SPH’86, […]
Data can seem distant and impersonal to students until those numbers represent African villagers killed by parasitic worms, or the levels of mercury found in fish bought at a Boston supermarket. These actual examples helped underscore the vivid reality of public health to students participating in Boston University’s Upward Bound Math Science (UBMS) program. For […]
Three students recently went above and beyond to fulfill their externship community outreach requirement. The students—Sayed Al-Mousawi DMD 12, Amy Mann DMD 12, and Vera Chernomordik DMD 12—attended an outreach event in East Boston held in the Shaw’s parking lot. The event included volunteers from Boston University School of Medicine, The Family Van, and the Dana Farber […]
Returning from a stimulating field trip to the Pfizer’s Research Technology Center in Cambridge, there was enough time to go back to the lab to finish experiments. In five days Johanna, Samanta, Vincent, Joshua, Chino, Jessica, Rachael, Maria, Derrius, Carlos and Jordan will present the results of an independent research project to an appreciative audience.
A new study by Dr. Hyon Choi, professor of Medicine in the Section of Rheumatology and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at BUSM, shows the prevalence of gout in the U.S. has risen over the last twenty years and now affects 8.3 million (4%) Americans. Prevalence of increased uric acid levels (hyperuricemia) also rose, affecting 43.3 […]
Volunteers from GSDM attended the 2011 World Summer Games in Athens, Greece June 25 -July 4. The group volunteered as part of Healthy Athletes® Special Smiles® initiative to provide oral health screenings, flouride treatment, mouth guards, oral hygeine instruction, and referrals to the athletes. Led by Senior Global Clinical Advisor of the Special Smiles® and […]
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) were recently awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to improve upon the “seek, test, treat, and retain” paradigm in Eastern Europe among HIV-infected Russian and Eastern European injection drug users (IDUs) in narcology (addiction) […]
BUSM Associate Professor Avrum Spira has won the university’s 2011 Innovator of the Year award which recognizes a BU faculty member whose cutting-edge research and ideas lead to the formation of companies that benefit society at large. Spira’s research on lung cancer, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD), and the effects of smoking on airway epithelial […]
There was an atmosphere of celebration and accomplishment for the 12 graduates and their families at the first graduation ceremony of the Boston University Institute for Dental Research and Education Dubai (BUIDRE), held on July 9, 2011. Graduates from the postdoctoral programs in endodontics, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics wore traditional academic robes with hoods bearing the lilac color of dentistry and the red and white colors of Boston University (BU). The ceremony was held under the patronage of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
The Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the U.S. has selected BUSM’s Department of Anesthesiology to produce digital educational materials related to the diagnosis and treatment of malignant hyperthermia (MH), a potentially fatal condition. MH is a genetic condition that occurs when a patient is given certain types of anesthetics resulting in dangerously high body temperatures that […]