Boston University

Public Health

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

Health & Medicine

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

NEIDL

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

lectures

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

Fitness

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

Wellness

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

Health & Medicine

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

Public Health

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

Students

The Trouble with Molly

September 11, 2013

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

Alcohol

BU Mandates Online Alcohol Course for First-Year Students

June 13, 2013

Ashish Premkumar, OB/GYN, women's health in refugee camps, Lebanon, Zambia

Gender Studies

An Unconventional OB/GYN

June 6, 2013

tanning bed, solarium, skin cancer, melanoma, FDA regulation

Health & Medicine

Ban the Tan?

June 5, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, clinical assistant professor, Safer Sex in the City, Science to Policy, online social media safety and teens

Health & Medicine

Your Teens Online

May 30, 2013

Julie Gerberding, first woman to head the Centers for Disease Control, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Boston University BU School of Public Health SPH Convocation 2013

Public Health

SPH Convocation Speaker: Become “Dauntless Doers”

May 22, 2013

Boston University BU, School of Public Health SPH, global cause children childhood death worldwide, pneumonia, diarrhea

BUSM

Keeping Two Million Children from Dying Each Year

April 12, 2013

Boston University BU, BU School of Medicine MED, BU School of Public Health SPH, moderate alcohol consumption risks, American Journal of Public Health, Timothy Naimi research

BUSM

A Drink a Day Raises Cancer Risk, Study Says

April 8, 2013

Boston University BU, Sargent College SAR, alumni improve womens health, rural India, India Research and Outreach Initiative, Gujarator Charutar Arogya Mandal, Dudley Allen Sargent Research Fund

Alumni

Helping Women in India without Leaving Boston

March 8, 2013

Helping Women in India without Leaving Boston