Boston University

Health & Medicine

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Medicine

Vaping Slows Wound Healing Just as Much as Smoking

October 19, 2018

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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

Masha Kamenetska, assistant professor of Physics at Boston University

Accolades

Masha Kamenetska

October 5, 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

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Alzheimer’s Disease

New Findings May Link Genes to Alzheimer’s

September 28, 2018

Neurotechnology

NSF Grant Will Advance Study of the Cocktail Party Effect

September 28, 2018

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Psychology

BU Spearheads Largest-Ever Study of Child Anxiety

September 25, 2018

Urban Health

Eggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead

September 14, 2018

Medicine

Machine Learning May Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes

September 10, 2018

Accolades

Kevin Gallagher Joins UN’s Committee for Development Policy

September 5, 2018

Whitney Manhart (MED'20) (left) a PhD student in Elke Muhlberger’s NEIDL lab, and lab manager Jennifer Pacheco are coauthors of a Cell Reports study about a tool that will help determine whether a new zoonotic virus, LLOV, can cause disease in humans. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Infectious Diseases

NEIDL Researchers Create Tool to Study New Virus

September 5, 2018

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Epidemiology

Black Women’s Lupus Study

August 30, 2018

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Social Media

Social Media–Filtered Pics Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

August 7, 2018

Ann McKee’s pioneering research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has earned her a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Accolades

Another Accolade for CTE Researcher Ann McKee

August 7, 2018

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Neuroscience

Contact Sports Associated with Lewy Body Disease

July 31, 2018

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

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Infectious Diseases

Tick Season Tips

July 23, 2018

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Addiction

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

July 19, 2018

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Social Work

Major Grant to Help School of Social Work Study How Opioid Crisis Is Impacting Infants and Their Mothers

July 19, 2018

Major Grant to Help School of Social Work Study How Opioid Crisis Is Impacting Infants and Their Mothers