Health

Rehabilitation Sciences

Beware Using Telemedicine for Voice and Speech Therapy

Heat Illness

How Does Heat Exposure Affect the Body and Mind?

Opinion

From the Dalkon Shield to Britney Spears’ IUD: Why Diverse Teams Need to Be Involved in Contraceptive Design

Environmental Health

As Temperatures Set Records, Heat Exposure Hits Some Neighborhoods Harder than Others

Neuroscience

How Sleep Is Impacted by Brain Circuitry and Aging

CORONAVIRUS VACCINES

Study Reveals Recipe for Even More Powerful COVID-19 Vaccines

Breast Cancer

Does Using Hair Relaxers Cause Higher Breast Cancer Risk for Black Women?

Alzheimer’s Disease

FDA Approves First Alzheimer’s Treatment in 18 Years. Now What?

Language Rehabilitation

Scientists Can Predict How Well a Stroke Survivor Will Recover Language Skills Using Computer Simulations of the Brain

POV

How Getting COVID-19 Made Me a Better Public Health Researcher

Cutting Carbon

How the US Can Cut Carbon Emissions in Half by 2030, with or without Congress

Health & Wellness

Massachusetts Ranked No. 1 Healthiest State on National Community Well-Being Index

Microbiomes

“Synthetic Ecology” Seeks to Boost Health by Engineering the Environment

Noise Pollution

Without Commuter Traffic, Pandemic-Era Boston Drivers Are Speeding Up, Increasing Noise Pollution

Opinion

I Got the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine. The Pause Makes Me Believe in It More

Nutrition

How Eating Competence and Intuitive Eating Can Improve Your Relationship with Food

Infectious Diseases

Where Is COVID Research Going Next?

Voice & Gender

How Testosterone Changes the Voices of Trans Men

COVID CONTROL

BU Publishes Public Health Data from Its Fall 2020 COVID Surveillance Efforts

Environmental Health

In the Northeast, Improved Walking and Bicycling Infrastructure Could Save Hundreds of Lives, Billions of Dollars