(3/27/14) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “Raw milk, whether it is from cows, sheep or goats, has not been pasteurized to kill harmful bacteria.” View full article.
(3/19/14) Professor Swathi Kiran and 12 additional BU instructors earn full professorships. “Kiran’s research into aphasia upended the belief that people with aphasia caused by strokes relearn language in the same way children learn it. Her finding suggested better therapies for patients.” View full article.
2014 Meredith E. Drench Lecture”My Personal Journey: From the Bedside to the Halls of Congress” Presented by Karen A. Daley (SPH ’88), PhD, RN, FAAN President, American Nurses Association Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 4:00-5:00 p.m. BU Sargent College 635 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101 Boston, MA 02215 Admission is free. The public is cordially invited. Join […]
Boston University (BU) College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College was awarded a five-year, $2.75M grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to test and refine a prototype Visually Guided Hearing Aid (VGHA). Gerald D. Kidd Jr., professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at BU […]
(3/17/14) Clinical Associate Professor Joan Salge Blake quoted. Expert quote: “How many times have you purchased fresh broccoli and had it sit for a week in your refrigerator turning yellow and wilting before you finally got around to using it?” View full article.
(3/7/14) Feature on Sargent professor of speech, language and hearing sciences Gerald Kidd. “Typical hearing aids may not help much in some situations, Kidd says—they amplify everything, even those voices and sounds you want to tune out. One hearing aid in development tries to fix this by using the wearer’s head movements to guide the […]
(1/14/14) Instructor Kris M. Mogensen quoted. Expert quote: “We found that in a large population of adult critical illness survivors, malnutrition near ICU admission is a robust predictor of 30-day readmission rate. It is clear that ICU patients who survive to hospital discharge suffer significant long-term morbidity and mortality. Malnutrition may be a prognostic and […]