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How One Oncologist Connects With Her Patients
Dr. Minh T. Truong’s journey from witnessing her grandmother’s struggle with a brain tumor in Vietnam to becoming a leading Boston University oncologist is a powerful story of resilience and compassion. Inspired by personal experience and a deep [...]awareness of healthcare inequities, she has dedicated her career to providing exceptional cancer care while addressing barriers that limit access for many patients. For Truong, oncology is not just about treating disease but building meaningful relationships—supporting patients through their toughest challenges so they can not only survive cancer but also reclaim their lives.
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Rochelle Walensky Urges Medicine Grads to Use Their Time and Voice for Purpose
Speakers on Thursday lauded the Class of 2023 graduates of BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine receiving their MD, PhD, and Graduate Medical Sciences (GMS) master’s degrees for their success in overcoming the educational and personal [...]impacts of a pandemic and urged them to use their knowledge and experience to help those who are less fortunate.
“I ask you to use your voice to end the practice of marginalizing people, clinically and professionally, based on their identity,” said Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the convocation speaker for the MD and PhD ceremony.
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PharmaChk: Testing the quality of medicines in the field
PharmaChk is a user-friendly, accurate, and portable system that screens for poor quality medicines by quantifying active pharmaceutical ingredient content.
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Dr. Paul Farmer, The Current State of Global Health
On November 4, 2015, Dr. Paul Farmer came to the College of General Studies for the 25th annual Stanley P. Stone Distinguished Lecture Series to give a lecture on the current state of global health. The lecture lasted approximately one hour, followed [...]by a 30 minute Q&A session.
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To Peru, For a Cause
In summer 2015, Sargent undergraduate and graduate students embarked on a service learning trip to Peru. At an altitude of 11,000 feet, they experienced firsthand the traditional Andean way of life, from a remote farming village to the Inca capital [...]of Cusco.
Supervised by Sargent faculty, students had the opportunity to see health care at work in a developing country; they learned about traditional medicine and visited rural community clinics, as well as public and privately funded hospitals.
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Illuminating Brain Development
Tarik Haydar, a School of Medicine associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology, explains how altering neurons to glow various colors can shed light on how the brain develops and help treat Down Syndrome.
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The Potential of iPS Cells at CReM
CReM founders discuss how they use iPS cells to study disease development, conduct drug screenings, and correct genetic mutations with the goal of producing healthy tissues and organs for transplantation.
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The Potential of iPS Cells at CReM
CReM founders discuss how they use iPS cells to study disease development, conduct drug screenings, and correct genetic mutations with the goal of producing healthy tissues and organs for transplantation.
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iPS Cells at the CReM
CReM founders discuss what iPS cells are and how they're made
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