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Physicians Slow to Implement HPV Vaccination and Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
Despite recent breakthroughs in cervical cancer prevention resulting in new vaccination and cervical cancer screening guidelines, a Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study published this month’s American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that physicians are slow to implement these guidelines into their practices. Researchers found that less than one third of obstetrician-gynecologists vaccinate their eligible... More
Two BUSM Faculty Receive Alzheimer’s disease Grants
David Harris, MD, PhD, chair and professor of biochemistry and Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD, professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics and neurology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), have received Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium (MNC) Awards. Each will receive a $250,000 grant allowing their teams to explore new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s disease. Harris is... More
Pediatric Residents get a Reality Check during Poverty Simulation
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 the Boston... More
BUSM Investigator Receives National Blood Foundation Grant for Blood Disease Research
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 studies... More
Boston University Study Identifies Molecular Circuitry that Helps Tuberculosis Survive for Decades
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... More
BUSM/BMC Radiologist Named Deputy Editor of Leading Radiology Journal
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... More
Medical Schools Using Social Media for Faculty Development
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 from... More
BUSM Researcher Warns Banned Fountain of Youth Drug May be Making a Comeback
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... More
Weekly Yoga Class Yields Similar Lower Back Pain Relief as Twice Weekly Classes for Low-Income Minority Patients
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... More
Fertility peaks around age 30 for both males and females, Boston University study finds
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... More
BUSM’s Anurag Singh, PhD, Receives Top American Lung Association Grant
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 two... More
BUSM researcher awarded the prestigious Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society
Mikel Garcia-Marcos, PhD, assistant professor in the department of Biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) was recently awarded a Research Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society. The four-year, $650,000 award will fund his project titled “molecular mechanisms and validation of a novel target in cancer.” One out of four people in the U.S. More
BMC, BUSM Geriatrician Honored with Ewald W. Busse Award
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... More
Four MED Profs Earn Top Honors
Recognized for teaching, mentorship, and medical expertise Four School of Medicine faculty members were recently honored for their excellence in teaching, devotion to students, and respect for patients. “Boston University School of Medicine very much values its master teachers,” says Karen Antman, Medical Campus provost and MED dean. “Alumni comment on the dedication of the faculty to... More
A Vacation Home Becomes a Dental Sanctuary in Teacapan, Mexico
A group of American and Canadian ex-patriots once found a beautiful, but poor fishing village in Mexico and chose to live half the year there. They wanted to give back to this community that gave them the chance to live in such beautiful surroundings. So they teamed up with Project Stretch to build and run... More
BUMC’s TranSComm Receives Silver Award as a Bike Friendly Business
Transportation Solutions for Commuters (TranSComm), the transportation management association serving BU Medical Campus and Boston Medical Center, accepted a Silver Award at Mayor Menino’s Bike Friendly Business Awards on May 17. Maureen Lacey, director of TranSComm, said she is “delighted that our medical center has been awarded the Silver Award for the last four years!” TranSComm has... More
Learn About the Impact of Digital Simulation Technology on Medical Education and Surgical Practice
Dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine Ralph Clayman, MD, will present, “Digital and Simulation Technology: Impact on Medical Education and Surgical Practice,” on Thursday, June 20 in Keefer Auditorium from 2:30-3:30 p.m. A pioneer in minimally invasive techniques, Clayman revolutioned kidney and urinary tract surgical procedures and is listed among the “Best... More
June 19 Seminar: Systems and Software to Support Research at BUMC
Come to the MISU/BUMC Medical Informatics Seminar, “Systems and Software to Support Research at BUMC,” to learn about the current state of informatics support for research at BUMC and see where the institute is heading. The seminar will also cover how BUMC is navigating important HIPAA privacy issues that affect informatics research support. BUMC currently provides... More
LAW’s Hylton, MED’s Costello Named Warren Distinguished Professors
Join eight faculty in career honor With a PhD in economics from MIT and a law degree from Harvard, Keith Hylton has melded the two disciplines in his teaching and research, using each to illuminate the other. A leader in the increasingly important field of mass spectrometry, Catherine Costello teaches and collaborates with medical researchers, pharmacologists, More
June 14 BUMC Housing Fair
Are you looking for a new roommate or an apartment during the upcoming year? Housing Resources is hosting a free Housing Fair on Friday, June 14, 11a.m.–1p.m. in the Hiebert Lounge. Incoming and continuing students on the BU Medical Campus are welcome to attend. Meet property managers, realtors, landlords, BU Rental Property Management, Boston's Rental... More
BU Professors Call on Physicians to Speak Out against Unethical Force-Feeding
Three BU professors from the schools of public health and medicine – concerned that the Guantanamo Bay detention center has become a “medical ethics-free zone” -- are calling on individual physicians and medical groups to speak out against the force-feeding of mentally-competent hunger strikers and to support military physicians there who refuse to participate. In a... More
BUSM Researcher Receives Grant to Examine Food Insecurity in Households with a Child with Special Healthcare Needs
Ruth Rose-Jacobs, ScD, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a research scientist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has received funding for a two-year study to examine the association between the presence of young children with special healthcare needs in households and food insecurity. Rose-Jacobs, also a child development researcher... More
Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Appoints Facilities Director
Charles (Chuck) N. Pantinas has joined the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) as the facilities core director. In this role, Pantinas is responsible for the creation, maintenance and oversight of engineering standards and the ongoing design and commissioning of the NEIDL. In addition, Pantinas is tasked with continuing the development and implementation of network-wide... More
Researchers Show that CRF in the Amygdala is Responsible for Compulsive Overeating
Researchers from Laboratory of Addictive Disorders at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have shown that direct injection in the amygdala, an area of the brain involved in anxiety, of a drug which inactivates corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), a hormone key mediator of anxiety and stress, completely blocks both the compulsive overeating and the anxiety generated... More
Emergency Drill to be Conducted at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
On Wednesday, June 12 at approximately, 9 a.m., Boston University (BU) will conduct a full-scale emergency response drill at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at 620 Albany Street. This drill is part of the NEIDL’s ongoing safety and training program for laboratory personnel and internal and external response officials. This drill will simulate a... More