Boston University

Public Health

Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, Tenth Annual Pike Lecture on Health Law, Boston University, School of Public Health, SPH, BU School of Law, LAW

Health & Medicine

Top Military Health Official: Meeting Needs of America’s Soldiers

February 12, 2014

surgeon general warning, smoking, tobacco, smoking kills, anti-smoking organizations, anti-smoking advertising

Health & Medicine

POV: Antismoking Movement Has Been Co-Opted

February 11, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, first ever internet based fetility study, online fertility study

Health & Medicine

Internet-Based Study Aims to Help Infertile Couples

February 10, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, infant malnurtrition research, associate professor Kirk Dearden

Health & Medicine

Consequences of Malnutrition May Be Reversible Later in Childhood

January 13, 2014

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM, Department of radiology, Boston Medical Center BMC, Ducksoo Kim, director of the vascular and interventional radiology fellowship, Karen Buch, condoms nanotechnology, sexual health, Grand Challenges Explorations Programs, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Wellness

MED Prof Wins Gates Foundation Condom Challenge

December 10, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, alcohol research, Bloomberg School of Public Health, popular music

University News

Alcohol Companies Marketing with Music Lyrics

December 5, 2013

Doctor Alex Walley, Boston Public Health Commission methadone clinic, Naloxone opioid overdose prescription drug, Narcan opioid overdose prescription drug, opiate overdose, fatal opioid overdose in Massachusetts

Drugs

The Addiction Puzzle, Part 1: An Overdose Lifeline

November 18, 2013

Food and Drug Administration FDA, trans fats ban

Health & Medicine

POV: Banning Trans Fats Is Just the Beginning

November 15, 2013

United States military, US military, veterans, war veterans, health issues

Research

Helping Veterans with Unseen Injuries

November 11, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, Nancy Brady, Ebola, Kibaale District of Uganda

CAMED

Lessons from a Hot Zone

November 7, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Medicine BUSM, New England Infectious Disease Laboratory NEIDL, contagious diseases clearance, tuberculosis research, Boston Public Health Commission, Institutional Biosafety Committee ISB, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Public Health

Higher-Level TB Research to Begin at NEIDL

October 31, 2013

Paul Campos, The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health book, professor of law, University of Colorado at Boulder

Health & Medicine

Focusing on Weight May Be Hazardous to Your Health

October 22, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health, research, professor Jonathan Levy, airport airplane pollution, heart disease

Research

Living Near an Airport Could be Bad for Your Heart

October 21, 2013

Owen Kendall, Franklin Park Mile, Rookie Runners, Forest Hill Runners, Hyde Square Task Force, running in Boston, Boston area running groups

In the City

MED Student Runs for All, Wants All to Run

October 17, 2013

Boston University BU Today, Point of View POV, student staff faculty opinion, Student Health Services ambassafor, sex smoking

Voices & Opinion

POV: Smoking and Your Sex Life

October 15, 2013

Boston University BU, Point of View POV opinion, opposition to Obamacare maddening, School of Management Stephen Davidson, Affordable Care Act

Science & Technology

POV: Opposition to Obamacare Is Maddening

October 4, 2013

Public Health

Alarm Bells over E-Cigarettes

September 26, 2013

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), food stamps, federal benefit cuts

Wellness

POV: Starving Out Food Stamps

September 24, 2013

Boston University BU, drug use safety, molly extasy MDMA risks, expert David Farb School of Medicine professor and chair of the pharmacology and experimental therapeutics department

Health & Medicine

The Trouble with Molly

September 11, 2013

Boston University BU, alcohol education, alcoholedu.com, mandatory online alcohol course training undegradates

Health & Medicine

BU Mandates Online Alcohol Course for First-Year Students

June 13, 2013

BU Mandates Online Alcohol Course for First-Year Students