In a genome-wide association (GWA) study, researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health (BUSPH) have identified several genes which influence degeneration of the hippocampus, the part of the brain most associated with Alzheimer disease (AD). The study, which currently appears online as a Rapid Communication in the Annals of Neurology, demonstrates […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have found that the incidence of gout and hyperuricemia (high uric acid levels) in the U.S. has risen significantly over the last 20 years and is associated with major medical disorders like hypertension and chronic kidney disease. The study, which is published in the American Journal of Medicine, […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated in experimental models that blocking the Sigma-1 receptor, a cellular protein, reduced binge eating and caused binge eaters to eat more slowly. The research, which is published online in Neuropsychopharmacology, was led by Pietro Cottone, PhD, and Valentina Sabino, PhD, both assistant professors in the […]
BUSM department of Emergency Medicine Assistant Professor Kristin Carmody, MD, has been elected Chair of the Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) beginning in 2013. AEUS is a community within the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) providing an international forum that brings together bedside clinician sonologists with the common goal of advancing patient care and […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a novel group of proteins that accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. These findings, which appear online in the Journal of Neuroscience, may open up novel approaches to diagnose and stage the progression likelihood of the disease in Alzheimer patients. Alzheimer’s disease […]
Dr. William J. Bicknell, an outspoken, inspirational professor of international health who sought to “make people hurt less,” has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 75. Bicknell, who died Tuesday night at his home in Marshfield, Mass., was the founder and chair emeritus of the Department of International Health at the School […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers recently uncovered a brain signaling pathway responsible for regulating the renal excretion of sodium. The findings appear in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Hypertension, or chronic high blood pressure, affects one-third of adults, significantly increasing cardiovascular risk and mortality. Approximately 50 percent […]
A new pathway for the re-growth of neurons after injury is described by researchers at BUSM in a recent article featured in PLoS Biology. They found that proteins involved in cell death also play a beneficial role in neuronal regeneration, offering the potential for new avenues of treatment of nerve damage. Using sophisticated high-resolution lasers, […]
Kazem Azadzoi, MD, research director of urology and professor of urology, pathology and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), was selected as the recipient of the Best Reviewer in 2011 Award by the editors of The Journal of Urology. “Careful and fair-minded evaluation of scientific articles is an important scholarly contribution and […]
Richard Wainford, PhD, has been named to the Early Career Reviewer (ECR) program at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR), National Institute of Health. As an eligible reviewer, he may be called upon by the Scientific Reviewer Officers (SROs) as they assemble study sections for the applications they are reviewing. The success of Dr. Wainford’s […]