ESPN Boston Jesse Mez, MD, neurology Former New England Patriots running back Mosi Tatupu, who died of a heart attack in 2010 at age 54, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease that has been linked to football-related head trauma. Expert quote: Dr. Jesse Mez, a researcher at BU’s CTE Center, conducts interviews with friends […]
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LA Times Boston University’s CTE Center On a cloudless, gentle Sunday afternoon in America’s newest football palace, fans gathered on a patio behind the San Francisco 49ers bench to compare jewelry and sip margaritas. Ten yards away, helmets collided with a sickening thwack and a giant body groaned in agony as it was flattened into the […]
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National Geographic Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD, psychiatry, neurology, ophthalmology Brain trauma from blast force is the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, afflicting hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat personnel. Although unseen, the damage strikes deeply into a soldier’s mind and psyche. Quote: To test the theory that blast exposure may have […]
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Boston University School of Medicine, the location of the first medical college to graduate an African-American female physician and the first African-American psychiatrist, holds diversity close to its heart—especially at this time of year. In memory of BU School of Theology alumnus Martin Luther King, Jr., Kermit Crawford, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry at BUSM […]
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BU School of Medicine faculty member Robert A. Stern, PhD, will present the 2015 Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences Dudley Allen Sargent Distinguished Lecture. A professor of neurology, neuosurgery, and anatomy and neurobiology at the School of Medicine, he will speak on “Head Games: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Long-Term Consequences of Repetitive […]
BU Today Rachel Flynn, PhD, pharmacology and experimental therapeutics By a quirk of biology, every time an adult cell divides, a bit of DNA gets lopped off the end of the double helix. This seems like a recipe for disaster—imagine a crazed librarian ripping the last chapter off a book every time it got checked […]
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Medpage Today Thea James, MD, emergency medicine Thea James, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC)/Boston University School of Medicine, and president of the medical and dental faculty. She is also the co-founder and director of the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program at BMC, which provides victims of violence with services that […]
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Boston Herald Robert Stern, PhD, neurology and neurosurgery Hub researchers are testing a pill that could protect the brain against the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease — a treatment that could be the first to slow the progression of one of the nation’s most common killers, they say. Expert quote: “It’s the only cause in […]
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All faculty, staff and students are reminded and encouraged to ensure that their offices, work places and Medical Student Residence rooms are properly closed up before departure each day as we get ready for another round of severe, sub-freezing weather. Extreme temperatures can quickly destroy a heating/cooling coil or fire sprinkler line in an area […]
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WebMD, from HealthDay Slone Epidemiology Center Night shift work significantly increases the risk of diabetes in black women, according to a new study. Expert quote: “In view of the high prevalence of shift work among workers in the U.S.A. — 35 percent among non-Hispanic blacks and 28 percent in non-Hispanic whites — an increased diabetes risk among this group […]
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