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Drugs

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Decongestants

A Common Nasal Decongestant Doesn’t Actually Work. What Should You Use Instead?

September 19, 2023

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Accolades

BU Ignition Awards to Accelerate Products for Repairing Damaged Teeth, Fighting Cancer, Boosting Reading Skills, and More

September 19, 2023

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Substance Use

Could Dunkin’s New Alcoholic Drinks Encourage Underage Drinking?

September 15, 2023

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Opioid Crisis

A Notorious Boston Intersection, Mass and Cass, Faces an Opioid Overdose Crisis. BU Researchers Are Turning to Overdose Survivors for Answers

August 3, 2023

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Infectious Diseases

Should We Be Worried about a Malaria Outbreak in the US?

July 17, 2023

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AI and Hypertension

New Artificial Intelligence Program Could Help Treat Hypertension

June 6, 2023

Behavior Change

How to Help People Break a Bad Habit (or Start a Good Habit)—Even if They Don’t Want To

January 18, 2023

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2022 in Review

Best of The Brink 2022: 10 Amazing Discoveries and Mind-Blowing Facts

December 12, 2022

Refugee camp where more than 1 million people live Atme camp Idlib Syria. Photo by iStock/Ahmet Akpolat

Forced Displacement

BU’s New Center on Forced Displacement Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis

October 6, 2022

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Memory Manipulation

Unlocking the Power of Our Emotional Memory

October 3, 2022

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Cancer treatments

Immune Cells Engineered to Battle Cancer Can Be Turned “On” or “Off”

September 8, 2022

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Addiction Treatment

How Racism and Bias Influence Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

August 22, 2022

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Cancer cells

Stopping Moles from Turning into the Deadliest Type of Skin Cancer

August 2, 2022

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Antibiotic Resistance

Can We Prevent Antibiotic Resistance?

May 19, 2022

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Cannabis and Drunk Driving

Deadly Car Accidents Involving Cannabis and Alcohol Have Doubled in 20 Years

December 16, 2021

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Transgender Health

How Does Testosterone Therapy Change the Voices of Transgender Men?

November 15, 2021

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Biological Engineering

Behind the Scenes at BU: Microfluidic Devices, Synthetic Biology’s Secret Weapon

November 5, 2021

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Physical Therapy

For Knee Replacement, Physical Therapy Reduces Risk of Chronic Opioid Use

October 27, 2021

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Innovation

BU Entrepreneurs Are Moving Two New Medical Devices Closer to Market

October 13, 2021

A child gets a malaria vaccination at Yala Sub-County hospital, in Yala, Kenya

Infectious Diseases

Malaria Vaccine—the First Ever to Immunize against a Parasitic Infection—Gets Green Light from WHO

October 7, 2021

Malaria Vaccine—the First Ever to Immunize against a Parasitic Infection—Gets Green Light from WHO