An ADA Evidence-Based Review (AER) workshop was held at the Dental School on June 2 and 3. The AER program is a unique opportunity which allows interested individuals to be trained in the concepts of scientific methods in dental research and study designs by the 13-15 members of the ADA Critical Review Panel (CRP). GSDM […]
Want the inside scoop on dieting? Ask BU’s Thomas Moore. The Medical Campus associate provost helped create the best diet plan going, according to US News & World Report. DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) topped 19 other diet plans in the magazine’s “Best Diets Overall” category, beating out such popular plans as Atkins, Jenny […]
Girls who followed the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet pattern had a lower incidence of excess weight gain as measured by body mass index (BMI) over the 10-year period of their adolescence according to BUSM researchers. These findings are reported in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Obesity is a major public […]
After decades of steadily climbing cesarean deliveries, the rate of increase is slowing in many industrialized countries, Boston University School of Public Health researchers found. In a study published online in the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, researchers counter the belief that rising cesarean delivery rates in industrialized countries are inevitable. “The general slowing […]
BUSM researchers have found that Gabapentin, (trade name Neurontin) a medication commonly used to treat neuropathic pain, seizures and biopolar disease in older and elderly patients, seems to have a higher incidence of anorgasmia, or failure to experience orgasm, than previously reported. This study was published in the current issue of American Journal of Geriatric […]
Five GSDM alums were named in the Massachusetts Dental Society’s prestigious Ten Under 10 list for 2011. The alums: Mark Doherty Jr. ENDO 05; Yael Frydman DMD 05; Jared Reid DMD 04; Anubha K. Sacheti PEDO 08; and Frank Schiano DMD 06, AEGD 07 attended a combination of both DMD and postgraduate programs at GSDM and have all gone on to achieve great success in their careers.
On Friday, May 20, GSDM honored new graduates at the School’s 47th annual Convocation. The late afternoon ceremony boasted 185 DMD and 76 postdoctoral student participants. Dean of Marsh Chapel Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill began the ceremony with an invocation. Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter followed by welcoming the graduating students, family and friends, and […]
Baby products containing polyurethane foam — such as car seats, changing table pads, crib mattresses and nursing pillows — contain flame retardants that could pose health risks to children, a new study co-authored by a BU School of Public Health researcher has found. The study in Environmental Science & Technology co-authored by Tom Webster, associate […]
The 8th annual Orchard Gardens field trip to GSDM took place on May 16. Around 40 first and second grade children made the trip from the nearby Orchard Gardens K-8 School for a day filled with educational and fun activities. “This day is a lot of fun and a good way for the dental students […]
The Boston University Division of Graduate Medical Sciences celebrated the commencement of 128 members of the Division who earned the Master of Arts and Master of Sciences degree on May 20 at the George Sherman Union. Representing 15 different departments and programs in the Division, the graduates are launched into careers including medical anthropology and […]