Among children who have known the trauma of child abuse, the list of potential side effects is long: bad dreams and bed-wetting. Stuttering and substance abuse. Anxiety, aggression, withdrawal, and chronic difficulties in school.
But a new study by the Boston University School of Medicine suggests that child physical and sexual abuse can also have implications for the health and biological function of abuse victims far into adulthood. The groundbreaking study, which followed more than 60,000 women over 16 years, found that those who were abused as girls were more likely to develop uterine fibroids decades later as adults.
Dr. Philip Trackman has demonstrated, for the first time, that lysyl oxidase-like-2 is critical for normal cartilage formation. The lysyl oxidase family is made up of five members, or isoforms: lysyl oxidase (LOX) and lysyl oxidase-like 1 – 4. All five isoforms share similarities that are expressed in lysyl oxidase or lysyl oxidase-like enzyme activity. […]
Basic and clinical research has seen an explosion of data-hungry technology. From whole genome sequencing, to microarrays, to clinical data capture we are challenged with find places to store and process all of the data generated by modern laboratories. Join Matt Cowger, a leading international expert on storage virtualization, as he presents a seminar to […]
Join David Savitz, PhD, as he presents the talk “The Public’s Love/Hate Relationship With Epidemiology: The Burden of Being Relevant” at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on Wednesday, Feb. 9 at noon in L-112. Savitz’s talk will cover how epidemiologic research, particularly studies addressing environmental health concerns, is of interest to the public because it […]
Work continues on the construction of the student residence at 815 Albany Street on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). The most recent work involves an excavator digging a hole for the foundation. This picture was taken on Jan. 18, 2011. The second picture taken Jan. 4, 2011, shows trenches being dug in preparation for […]
Alcoholic gelatin shots still represent a “substantial proportion” of how underage drinkers obtain alcohol, with one in five study participants reporting having one shot in the last 30 days, says a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health researchers. The pilot study, published online in the journal Substance Use and Misuse, is […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) professor of pediatrics Jerome Klein, MD has been recognized by Boston Medical Center with the establishment of The Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. The award was presented by Ravin Davidoff, MD, BMC’s Chief Medical Officer to Dr. Klein in its inaugural year to commemorate this milestone and in […]
Members of the Boston University chapter of the Vietnamese Student Dental Association (BUVSDA), lead by chapter president Arnold Nguyen DMD 12 and CHP Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri volunteered at the Annual Holiday Party at the Wang YMCA in Chinatown on Sunday, December 12. Volunteers set up two tables with oral health activities for […]
Jonathan Howland, a professor of community health sciences at BUSPH and director of public health and injury prevention research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center, has been appointed to the CDC’s expert panel on Falls Prevention.jo The panel’s mission is to work with the Centers for Disease Control and other federal […]
While Boston was fixated on the status of her brother’s injured knee during the 2008-09 football season, Nancy Brady quietly slipped off to Kampala, Uganda, for a six-month fellowship that would bring her into contact with doctors, nurses and villagers battling global diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Never one to seek out the […]