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Oral Infection and Heart Disease: Study Shows Different Antibodies Indicate Different Risk Profiles
Science previously suggested oral infections might trigger the immune system, causing inflammation in other parts of the body and contributing to heart disease. It was thought that all antibodies worked the same way and that antibody levels would increase the risk of heart disease if the “oral infection and heart disease” hypothesis were true. In a... More
A Medical Training Model Addresses Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Each day, across this country, thousands of medical professionals provide vital medical services to people in acute need. These patients come from all walks of life, all cultures, races, ethnicities, economic and psychosocial circumstances. Very often the medical professionals providing these crucial services come from different backgrounds entirely. Yet in order to provide the medical... More
BUSPH's Practice Office Awarded $1.275 Million to Help Train Local Health Agencies
The Office of Public Health Practice at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) has been awarded a $1.275 million grant over three years to help the state provide better training to public health staff members and governing officials who run local boards of health in hundreds of cities and towns around the state. More
GSDM Science Day Highlights Stem Cells and Wide Range of Student Research
Science Day 2010 featured poster and oral presentations by predoctoral and postdoctoral students as well as postdoctoral fellows. The depth and breadth of research at this year's event was truly remarkable. Vendors also descended on the Dental School cafeteria to showcase the latest dental products available for dental practitioners. After lunch, Chair and the Herbert Schilder... More
April 14 Public Health Forum: Supporting Health Systems in Northern Haiti
Join Nathan Nickerson, RN, DrPH, as he presents the talk "Outside the Epicenter: Supporting Health Systems in Northern Haiti" at the BUSPH Public Health Forum on April 14 at noon in L-112. Nickerson is executive director of Konbit Sante Cap-Haitien Health Partnership, a Maine-based volunteer partnership that aims to save lives and improve health care in... More
BUSM Celebrates Match Day
At BUSM 140 students anxiously awaited the results of Match Day. The annual event marks the moment in which students around the country learn which residency programs they will be attending and where they will spend the next three to five years of their lives following graduation. Within seconds of the noon deadline, the future physicians... More
BUSM's Costello Honored for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry
For nearly 40 years, Catherine E. Costello has advanced the application of mass spectrometry to biomolecules, especially carbohydrates and glycoproteins. Costello is a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics at BUSM and founding director of both the school's mass spectrometry resource and its cardiovascular proteomics center. "Early on, the scientific world pooh-poohed MS for structural characterization... More
GSDM Student Takes Home Prestigious Honor from AADR Meeting
Several Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) students showcased their research at the AADR Annual Meeting held March 3 to 6 in Washington, D.C. Sheede Khalil DMD 12, who worked with Professor and Director of the Predoctoral Research Program Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska, was the winner of an AADR/Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Products... More
BUSPH Researchers' Work on Gulf War Illness Pays Off for Veterans — Finally
Sixteen months after a panel of experts issued a landmark report affirming that exposure to toxic chemicals may have affected thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has agreed to re-examine the disability claims of veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service. "This is really a... More
BUSPH Student Receives Scholarship to the Society for Adolescent Medicine 2010 Annual Meeting
The New England Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) has awarded Boston University School of Public Health student Grace Yang with a scholarship to attend its annual conference. Yang, who is concentrating in maternal and child health in the Community Health Sciences Department, will receive $1,500 to help pay for registration and travel costs... More
GSDM Raises Prosthodontics Awareness
On Saturday, March 6, students, residents, and faculty from the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Department of Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials partnered with Division of Community Health Programs (CHP) Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri to provide dental outreach at a Cancer Awareness Health Fair. The fair was held at the Iglesia Cristiana Nueve Vida Church in East Boston and was sponsored by UMass Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Latino Health Insurance Program, and the host church. More
BUSM Researcher Receives Prestigious Young Investigator Award
Adam Rose MD, MSc, FACP, an assistant professor of medicine at BUSM and a core investigator at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research at the Bedford VA Medical Center, has been named a 2009 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinner. Rose received this award for his article titled “Warfarin dose management affects... More
A Call to Serve: BU Inaugural Global Day of Service arrives in April
In the spirit of Lemuel Murlin, the BU president who in the early 1900s envisioned a university “in the heart of the city, in the service of the city,” the BU Alumni Association is sponsoring its first Global Day of Service, giving alumni and others the chance to reach out to their communities, in unison, More
Breakthrough in Epithelial Tissue Research Made by GSDM Team
Professor and Director of the Predoctoral Research Program Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska and her research team have made an important advance in the understanding of how epithelial tissues achieve functional maturity. Formation of mature tissues involves the establishment of stable cell-cell contacts between adjacent cells through the organization of different adhesion complexes. These include E-cadherin-containing adherens junctions... More
Register for the First Annual Translational Research Symposium
Showcase your research and meet other investigators who, like you, are pursuing innovative studies that will one day bring basic science to the bedside and beyond. Thursday, April 1 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm 595 Commonwealth Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, Mass. The Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute is offering a one-day research symposium to introduce... More
New Study Suggests Link between Cape Water Supply, Breast Cancer Risk
Upper Cape Cod drinking water that was contaminated by wastewater effluent dating to the 1960s may be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, a team of BUSPH researchers reports in a new study published online in Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers found that associations were strongest for women exposed to contaminated water from the... More
Mar. 17 BUSPH Public Health Forum: Does Big Pharma Have a Duty to Help Poor Patients?
On Wednesday, March 17, join Kevin Outterson at the BUSPH Public Health Forum as he explores the question, "Do Global Pharmaceutical Companies Have a Duty to Help Impoverished Patients?" Outterson, an associate professor of law at BU School of Law, will examine the potential ethical responsibilities that drug companies might have to improve global public health. More
Learn About In Vivo Imaging With Fluorescent And Bioluminescent Light Using IVIS
Join Anna Studwell, IVIS Core Technician/Manager on March 10 as she presents an introduction to In Vivo Imaging. This presentation covers the basic science behind bioluminescent and fluorescent imaging, a description of the imaging hardware, and an overview of analysis techniques using Living Image software. Researchers interested in tracking cancer cell metastasis and... More
GSDM Researchers ID Propeptide’s Normal Role in Healthy Bone Development
GSDM Professor of Periodontology & Oral Biology Dr. Philip Trackman, PhD, and his team for the first time identified the normal role of the lysyl oxidase propeptide (LOX-PP) in healthy bone formation. The significant finding is that LOX-PP naturally interferes with the effects of an important bone growth factor, effectively slowing the growth of pre-osteoblasts, cells... More
GSDM Students Get Their Point Across; Defeat Tufts in Dental Debate
On Friday, February 12, the Boston University Chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) participated in a debate against Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. The debate was sponsored by the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) and included an introductory speech by guest speaker and GSDM Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives Dr. Paula Friedman. Debate topics... More
DASH to Health – Online support for eating better and getting in shape
New Year’s is long gone, and with it scores of well-intentioned resolutions. The January gym crowds have dissipated, vending machine stockers are working overtime, and Captain Crunch has replaced morning crunches. More
Share Your Artistic Abilities at ART DAYS 2010
All students, faculty and staff from all schools are encouraged to submit artwork of any medium to the 20th annual Boston University Medical School gallery for the arts. "Art Days" was begun by former Dean Aram Chobanian to foster the support and growth of the creative arts at BUMC. It has been very successful and... More
Faculty Research Symposium:Quality, Quantity, and Cost in the Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa
Join Sydney Rosen, research associate professor of international health at SPH, and Warren Kaplan , assistant professor of international health at SPH, as they present their research on the "Quality, Quantity, and Cost in the Treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa" at the BUSPH Faculty Research Symposium on Wednesday, February 24 at noon in the BUSM... More
School of Medicine Will Host Physicians for Human Rights: Call for global health curriculum tops weekend conference
As an undergraduate intern at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Elizabeth Park became convinced that global health issues should be planted firmly in the curricula of medical schools. Now a volunteer for the BU chapter of Cambridge-based Physicians for Human Rights, Park (CAS’10, MED’13), who is enrolled in the Seven-Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program, hopes the group’s national conference at the School of Medicine on Saturday, February 20, will invigorate efforts to make international health, human rights, and global cultural awareness part of every future doctor’s education. About 150 students and educators have registered for the daylong event, which will culminate in a Town Hall Forum on Human Rights and Health Policy, open to the public and moderated by U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-Mass.). More
Human Rights & Health Forum: BU Experts to Discuss Hunger Strikes and Force-Feeding of Prisoners Feb. 23
A year after a high-profile report ordered by President Obama confirmed the continued force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay detention center, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) faculty are sponsoring a forum Feb. 23 to discuss the legal, ethical and human rights implications of the practice, and to set an agenda for action... More