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women's health

POV: Sexual Pleasure Should Be Integrated into Scientific Research on Sexual Health

August 22, 2024

Alzheimer’s disease

Living in Greener Neighborhoods during Midlife May Slow Cognitive Decline

July 17, 2024

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Alumni

Living Near Oil and Gas Activity Linked to Poor Mental Health Among People Trying to Conceive

July 12, 2024

Epidemiology

Lowering Systolic Blood Pressure below 120 mmHg May Reduce Dementia Risk among Black, Latino Populations

July 12, 2024

New BU President Melissa Gilliam

President Melissa Gilliam

‘We’re Trying to Make a Difference in People’s Lives’

July 3, 2024

Eric Rubenstein and Gus Edouard present about their co-research team.

Research

Redefining Inclusion: Co-Researchers with Down Syndrome Set their Own Research Agenda

July 3, 2024

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urban health

Income, Urbanicity Influence Perceptions of Factors that Shape Health

June 28, 2024

Featured

SPH Faculty and Students Honored by Society for Epidemiologic Research Conference

June 21, 2024

A woman waiting for pregnancy test results, holding her phone.

pregnancy complications

Following Dobbs, PRESTO Pregnancy Planners Reduced Engagement with Fertility App

June 14, 2024

A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

covid-19

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024