Men are more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge than women, according to BUSM researchers Brian Jack, MD, professor of family medicine, and Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MS, assistant professor, family medicine. Other factors also predicted re-admittance in men included being retired, unmarried, having symptoms of depression and failing to […]
Save the date! Join Howard C. Bauchner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications as he speaks on “My First Year at JAMA.” Dr. Bauchner was named Editor-in Chief on July 1, 2011, after serving as a faculty member of pediatrics and community health sciences on the Medical Campus for 25 years. […]
The first floor of the student residence is designed to welcome residents and their visitors, while providing common space for informal gatherings and a fitness area. The largest area on the first floor is the student lounge. Bathed in natural light, this 1300 square foot area is designed as a retreat for students to relax […]
Thomas Moore, MD, physician chairman of the research team who created the popular and successful healthy eating plan known as DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet, has adapted its key points into a weight-loss regimen in his new book “THE DASH DIET FOR WEIGHT LOSS: Lose Weight the Healthy Way—and Keep It Off—with America’s […]
An international team of researchers led by Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has identified four loci that appear to be associated with decreasing the volume of the hippocampus. The hippocampus is the region of the brain that plays an important role in the formation of specific, new memories, which is an ability that patients […]
Boston University was well represented at the Emory Global Health Case Competition on March 31. The team of six included a medical student, an MD/MBA student, three MBA/MPH students and a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, placed second out of a roster of 23. This was the first year that BU has participated. The team […]
BUSM researchers were part of an international team of investigators to discover a remarkably simple organizational structure in the brains of humans and non-human primates. The researchers found that the brains of higher animals are built from parallel and perpendicular fibers that cross each other in an orderly fashion. According to the researchers this kind […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a gene that plays a key role in regulating inflammatory response and homeostasis. These findings could help lead to the development of innovative methods to reduce the inflammation associated with cancer, type 2 diabetes and other diseases. The study, which was led by Valentina Perissi, […]
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, it will kill about 160,000 people in 2012, more than the next four cancers combined. Avrum Spira wants to lower these numbers by diagnosing it earlier and preventing its development. For the last decade, Spira, a School of Medicine […]
There may be fewer paths to medical school if the significance of physician empathy takes on more importance. If empathy forms the foundation for positive relationships between physicians and patients, and ultimately better clinical results, then medical school applicants interested in primary care and possessing this trait could have an advantage in the admissions process […]