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Global Health

Microscopic image of tuberculosis bacteria

Biology

How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly

January 14, 2019

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

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

Accolades

Kevin Gallagher Joins UN’s Committee for Development Policy

September 5, 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

counterfeit pills

Global Health

Fellowship Available for Study of Poor-Quality Drugs, Disease Resistance

June 14, 2018

Clinicians work at an Ebola Virus vaccination clinic in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, during an outbreak in May of 2018

Ebola

BU Experts on New Ebola Outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo

May 31, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

BU-Based CARB-X Antimicrobial Partnership Gets Another $50 Million Plus

May 22, 2018

toddler coughing

Infectious Diseases

Why Is Whooping Cough on the Rise?

May 7, 2018

Veronika Wirtz, a School of Public Health (SPH) associate professor of global health, and Muhammad Zaman, a College of Engineering (ENG) professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University

Global Health

The Problem of Poor-Quality Medicine

April 25, 2018

Real and counterfeit Viagra pills side by side. Real Viagra is on the right.

Global Health

Counterfeit Viagra Is a Problem

April 11, 2018

Prototype of an HPV point-of-care diagnostic test in the lab of Catherine Klapperich

Engineering

How Point-of-Care Testing Will Transform Healthcare

April 5, 2018

Ebola virus. Symptoms like fever and fatigue appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to the virus; the average is 8 to 10 days. The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic killed 11,000 people.

Infectious Diseases

Diagnosing Ebola before Symptoms Arrive

March 29, 2018

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy

Biology

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

December 20, 2017

Sick kid with high fever laying in bed while mother checks the temperature

Global Health

TB as Major Cause of Death among Children Worldwide

November 30, 2017

bad medicine

Global Health

Bad Medicine

August 8, 2017

Man shucks an ear of corn in a corn field. USDA photo by Christina Reed.

Climate Change

What If the World’s Major Food Crops Fail at the Same Time?

June 20, 2017

Global Health

Just Don’t Call It Edutainment

May 30, 2017

Madeleine Scammell, assistant professor of environmental health

Accolades

Scammell Wins NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Health Science Award

April 20, 2017

Kevin Outterson, N. Neal Pike Scholar in Health and Disability Law, leads CARB-X, world’s largest public-private partnership to accelerate development of urgently needed new antimicrobials.

Antibiotics

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics

March 31, 2017

LAW-based CARB-X Awards $24 Million for Superbug Antibiotics