Health

Opioids

Testing a New Approach to Solving the Opioid Epidemic

COVID and Flu

Should You—and Can You—Get a COVID-19 Shot This Fall?

Brain Health

BU CTE Center Study Ties Contact Sports Head Hits to Brain Damage

Exercise

Can VR Trick Your Body into Feeling Hotter or Cooler While You’re Exercising?

Research Accolades

Boston University Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women’s Health Research

CTE

NYC Gunman’s Note Referencing NFL Pleads for His Brain to Be Studied for CTE Link

PFAS

What Are PFAS? And Could Fiber Supplements Help Remove Them from Our Bodies?

Alzheimer’s Disease

What a Newly Approved Blood Test Means for Diagnosing Alzheimer’s

NEIDL

Renowned Virologist Robert A. Davey to Lead NEIDL, BU’s Infectious Diseases Research Hub

Low Back Pain

Finding Non-Opioid Solutions for Low Back Pain

Autism

What Causes Autism? And Is There an Autism Epidemic, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says?

CTE

NIH Awards $15M to BU-Led Effort to Diagnose CTE During Life

Research News

Brink Bites: Tracking Endangered Frogs, Why Concentration Wanders, Studying Kids’ Beliefs

Innovator of the Year

Pulmonologist Darrell Kotton Is BU’s Innovator of the Year

Suicide

Red Sox Player Jarren Duran’s Suicide Attempt Admission Praised by BU Trauma Expert for Helping with Stigma

Hearing Loss

Trouble Hearing in Noisy Places and Crowded Spaces? Researchers Say New BU-Developed Algorithm Could Help Hearing Aid Users

Mental Health

BU Researcher Teams Up with Boston’s Fathers’ UpLift to Support Black Men’s Mental Health

Bird Flu

How Worried Should You Be About Bird Flu?

Pandemics

Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? 5 Reasons to Feel Confident—and 5 to Be Worried

Research News

Brink Bites: Studying Cigarette Restrictions, the Life of a Famed Poet, and Shifting Attitudes Toward Capitalism