The Health Perspectives of African American Adolescents and Young Men Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, OTR/L, ScD; Fatima Adigun; Timothy Bickmore, PhD; Karla Damus, PhD, MSPH, MN, RN, FAAN; Kenneth Harris; Clevanne Julce; Justin Kramer; Jessica Martin, MPH; Steve Martin, MD, EdM; Stefan Olafsson; Michelle St. Fleur, MD, Brian Jack, MD Click hereto read the full abstract.
Leading from the front Toyin Ajayi isn’t afraid to roll up her sleeves while delivering care to some of the state’s neediest patients. Click here to read the article
Kirsten Austad, Anita Chary, Alejandra Colom, Rodrigo Barillas,dDanessa Luna, Cecilia Menjı´var, Brent Metz, Amy Petrocy, Anne Ruch, Peter Rohloffa A recent article in GHSP calls for classifying fertility awareness methods as ‘‘modern contraceptives’’ despite their inferiority. We believe in a rights-based approach, which considers the real-world conditions that many women face, including constrained sexual agency […]
by Anne Toledo, MD “It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends. I can remember now, with a clarity that makes the nerves in the back of my neck constrict, when New York began for me, but I cannot lay my finger upon the moment it ended.” – […]
Congratulations to Michelle Dalencour, Karla Damus and Brian Jack for publication of their manuscript entitled “The future of preconception care in the United States: multigenerational impact on reproductive outcomes” that describes possible epigenetic mechanisms for disproportionate health disparities in premature and low birth weight births among Black women. Click here to read the full article.
Brookline Resident Runs for Addiction Treatment Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett, a physician at Boston Medical Center, completed the Boston Triathlon this past weekend for Team BMC. BROOKLINE, MA – A Brookline doctor completed the Boston Triathlon over the weekend to raise money for substance abuse treatment […]
by John Weeks, Publisher/Editor of The Integrator Blog News and Reports Integrative health group visits was the topic of an April 28, 2016 grand-rounds webinar with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health, the organization of 68 academic medical centers promoting the integrative model. The two speakers were Katherine Gergen-Barnett, MD (pictured right) with Boston Medical […]
Intimate Partner Violence Speaker: Elaine Alpert MD, MPH Tuesday May 24, 2016 12:00 – 1:00 PM Boston University School of Medicine 72 East Concord Street Room L110 first floor Attendees are cordially invited for lunch at 11:45 and Q & A discussion from 1-2 following the lecture Elaine Alpert MD, MPH, trained in internal medicine and […]
Miriam Hoffman, MD; Molly Cohen-Osher, MD BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The transition from pre-clerkship to clerkship curriculum in medical school presents many challenges to students. Student roles and supervising physicians’ expectations vary widely. Efforts to ease this transition have included third-year orientations, skills sessions, field-specific training, and peer-to-peer communication/support. We developed a new tool, called The […]
Bayla Ostrach (Boston University), Ashley Houston (Boston University), and Merrill Singer (University of Connecticut) In the United States, Congress wields enormous power over health care policy and funding. With health care committees and floor votes on budgets controlling national health spending of nearly three trillion dollars annually (Department of Health and Human Services 2015), and […]