Goal: Keep food on your table, keep the lights on in your house, keep your kids in school, and get to work. Sounds easy enough, right? Does it still sound easy when your family’s budget is consistently $250 short of what you critically need? This was the challenge posed to 35 new pediatric residents of […]
George Murphy, PhD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of Hematology and Oncology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and co-director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center has received a two-year, $75,000 research grant from the National Blood Foundation to investigate blood disorders. Murphy’s laboratory […]
In a study from Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), researchers have generated a map of the cellular circuitry of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis (TB). This information, which is being published online as an Advanced Online Publication in the journal Nature, sheds new light on the bacterium’s ability to survive inactive […]
Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, professor of radiology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and section chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging at Boston Medical Center (BMC), was appointed a Deputy Editor of the Radiology Editorial Board by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Guermazi is the first faculty member from either institution to take on this […]
Physicians and scientists at academic medical centers face many competing demands for their time. Efforts to help them improve their teaching or scholarship traditionally have taken place in face-to-face lunchtime workshops. As clinical volume and the difficulty of obtaining external funding increases, faculty members have less opportunities to devote to their own professional development. Researchers […]
Despite it being more than 30 years since the “fountain of youth drug” Gerovital H3 was banned in the United States, it may be making a comeback. In an editorial published in this month’s Journal of the American Geriatrics Society BUSM researcher Thomas Perls, MD, points out that a few U.S.-based anti-aging and longevity clinics […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that a weekly yoga class provided similar lower back pain relief and reduced the need for pain medication as twice weekly classes in lower income minority patients. The results of the study indicate that patients interested in trying yoga for […]
A new study co-authored by researchers from the BU Schools of Public Health and Medicine found that declines in fertility occurred slightly later than previous studies have suggested. Most previous studies have been conducted in fertility clinic populations or populations using natural family planning, whereas this study was conducted in a population of Danish women […]
Anurag Singh, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine, has received an American Lung Association (ALA) Lung Cancer Discovery Grant to expand his research on targeted therapies for drug resistant cancers. The Lung Cancer Discovery Grant, an award of $100,000 per year for up to […]
Thomas Perls, MD, MPH, a geriatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has been honored with the Ewald W. Busse Research Award. One of the most prestigious in the field of gerontological research, the award is given every four years in conjunction with the World […]