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Finding My Way: Chris - "Making human contact"
Athletic training as a path to a medical degree? Chris tells why he chose a hands-on approach-- both in academics and community service.
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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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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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Teaching Doctors How to Close Life’s Last Door
A BU medical team visits a terminally ill patient at home to provide end-of-life care.
View the story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/teaching-doctors-how-to-close-lifes-last-door/
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YouSpeak: Should Medical Marijuana Be Legalized?
On November 6, Massachusetts’ residents will vote on a ballot initiative that would legalize medical marijuana. The controversial measure would allow people with glaucoma and chronic illnesses that cause severe pain to buy marijuana with a [...]doctor’s written recommendation, at designated dispensaries.
With the election just seven weeks away, this week’s “YouSpeak†asks: Should medical marijuana be legalized?
Read the story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/youspeak-should-medical-marijuana-be-legalized/
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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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Inquiring Minds: Holocaust Doctors
Both grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, undergraduates Rachelle Rubin (CAS’12) and Evelyn Liberman (CAS’12, SPH’13) have been helping Dr. Michael Grodin, a School of Public Health professor of health, law, bioethics, and human [...]rights, and a School of Medicine professor of sociomedical sciences and psychiatry, collect and organize an anthology of writings by and about Jewish doctors in ghettos and Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.
Read the full story on BU Today: http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/inquiring-minds-holocaust-doctors/
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First, Do No Harm
Dr. Michael Grodin (SPH, MED) discusses his research into the experiences of Jewish medical professionals during the holocaust.
Read the full story on Bostonia:
http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/winter-spring12/holocaust-doctors/
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Detecting and Treating Arthritis
Mark Grinstaff and members of the Grinstaff Group discuss how they are developing new ways to diagnose and treat osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease that destroys cartilage and underlying bone in knees, hips, fingers, and spine.
Read the full [...]story on BU Today:
http://www.bu.edu/today/2014/grinstaff-group-osteoarthritis/
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