Boston University

Public Health

Concept photo of a United States shaped pill box holding a lot of pills resting on an American flag, symbolizing the opioid crisi in America

Marketing

In America’s Opioid Crisis, Drug Marketing Is a Matter of Life or Death

January 23, 2019

Microscopic image of tuberculosis bacteria

Biology

How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly

January 14, 2019

Black handgun lying on a black background

Public Health

Gun-Related Deaths Have Decreased Overall American Life Expectancy

December 12, 2018

Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (right) and postdoctoral fellow Imane El Meouche in a lab

Antibiotics

Antibiotic Resistance without the Antibiotics

December 11, 2018

A female asian child enters an MRI machine.

Infectious Diseases

Mysterious Illness AFM Has Paralyzed More Than 100 Children

December 5, 2018

female traveler standing underneath the list of departures and arrivals in an airport

Public Health

SPH Report: Many Study Abroad Students Return with Preventable Diseases

December 3, 2018

sea urchin embryo

Engineering Biology

Unfolding Nature’s Patterns

November 29, 2018

Monica L. Wang, assistant professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health smiles for a photo as she receives an Outstanding Young Leaders award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Boston

Accolades

BU researcher named one of 2018’s Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by Boston Chamber of Commerce

October 30, 2018

Antiretroviral drugs can prevent transmission of HIV from mother to unborn child, but we don’t yet fully understand how exposure to HIV affects a baby's health later on.

HIV-AIDS

How Does HIV Exposure Impact Uninfected Babies?

October 24, 2018

a pile of multicolored condoms

Biomedical Engineering

New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex

October 18, 2018

Center for the Humanities panel on Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis

Addiction

Changing the Narrative on Opioids

October 15, 2018

In the Classroom Asian Student Raises Hand and Asks Lecturer a Question. Multi Ethnic Group of Modern Bright Students at the College.

Healthcare

Racial Disparities in Nationwide Mental Health Services for College Students

September 28, 2018

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

Accolades

Kevin Gallagher Joins UN’s Committee for Development Policy

September 5, 2018

black woman drinking wine

Epidemiology

Black Women’s Lupus Study

August 30, 2018

Two women take a selfie with an iphone

Social Media

Social Media–Filtered Pics Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

August 7, 2018

An engorged tick

Infectious Diseases

Tick Season Tips

July 23, 2018

A group of adults cheers while drinking beer

Addiction

Almost Half of US Adults Who Drink, Drink Too Much, and Continue to Do So

July 19, 2018

Close-up Egyptian fruit bat or rousette, Rousettus aegyptiacus. on isolated black background

Infectious Diseases

Marburg Virus Can’t Kill Bats. Why?

July 13, 2018

Jeffrey Geddes

Earth & Environment

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions

July 5, 2018

CAS Prof Wins Nearly $1M to Study Interaction of Natural and Human Emissions