MED Gives High Schoolers a Jump on Health Careers
Enrichment program for Boston’s underrepresented minorities Danny Truong (left), a British International School of Boston senior, and Brandon Hector, a Boston Latin Academy senior, work on a sickle cell experiment as part of the Youth to Health Careers (Y2HC) program at the School of Medicine. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Although he is more cheerful and […]
MED Neuroscience Program Gives Undergrads Experience and Insight
Integrates research, hands-on neuroanatomy, and neurosurgery University of Michigan senior Rachel Feltman (from left), Colgate senior Courtney Dunphy, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign junior Madeline McDevitt with the cadaver brains that have been donated to MED. Photo by Cydney Scott. From their looks of cheerful expectation, you might think the eight undergraduates gathered around […]
911 Call on the Opioid Crisis
On Capitol Hill, an SPH prof and local police chief describe what works At a Capitol Hill briefing hosted by BU Provost Jean Morrison (second from right), Kimberly Johnson (from left) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Arlington, Mass., police chief Fred Ryan; and School of Public Health professor David Rosenbloom presented […]
POV: More Help Needed for Youngest Victims of Opioid Epidemic
“The time is now for pediatricians to step up” to address the crisis Photo by bobbieo/iStock. Opioids and the harm they cause have received a lot of attention recently. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of unintentional death in the United States, with the number of annual overdoses exceeding deaths from motor vehicle crashes. Fortunately, […]
SDM Pediatric Dental Clinic Serves the Underserved
Changing lives one filling at a time At the new Goldman School of Dental Medicine Pediatric Oral Healthcare Center’s treatment fair: three-year-old Levi McBride of Dorchester with Yasmin Alayyoubi (SDM’17) (from left), center director Dolrudee Jumlongras, an SDM clinical assistant professor, Athanasios Zavras, an SDM professor and chair of pediatric dentistry, and Stephen Prieve (SDM’18). […]
At BMC, Food Is Medicine
Doctors and clinicians write food prescriptions to Preventive Food Pantry Latchman Hiralall, manager of Boston Medical Center’s Preventive Food Pantry (left), and food pantry assistant Juan Carlos Turcios prepare a cart of food for a patient. Photos by Dana J. Quigley. It’s 8:30 a.m. on a Friday and four men in the basement of the […]
BU Awarded $23.4 Million NIH Grant
For turning discoveries into treatments, diagnostics, improved health David Center directs Boston University’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute, which received an NIH renewal grant to help investigators on both campuses conduct multidisciplinary clinical research. Photo by Cydney Scott. BU’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has been awarded a $23.4 million, four-year National Institutes of […]
A New Diagnostic for Kidney Disease
MED prof honored as BU Innovator of the Year David J. Salant, a MED professor of medicine and of pathology and laboratory medicine, is BU’s Innovator of the Year. Photos by Esther Ro (COM’15). Suggest to David Salant that his research must have taken a long time and you’ll hear a dry chuckle. “How about 30 […]
Catching Lung Cancer Early
New test may prevent invasive procedures and save lives Lung cancer is responsible for the most cancer deaths in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, it will kill an estimated 158,000 people in 2015, more than breast, prostate, and colon cancer combined. Because lung cancer grows and spreads so quickly, many healthy […]
Big Data and Improving Health Care
Data scientist and physician team up to reduce preventable hospitalizations By: Suzanne Jacobs Big Data Meets Healthcare—Bill Adams, a physician and medical informatician, and Yannis Paschalidis, a data scientist and engineer, are working together to use data from electronic health records to reduce preventable hospitalizations and cut health care costs. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Yannis […]