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Healthcare

Tightly cropped photo of a young man vaping with an e-cigarette and vapor streaming out his mouth.

Medicine

Vaping Slows Wound Healing Just as Much as Smoking

October 19, 2018

In the Classroom Asian Student Raises Hand and Asks Lecturer a Question. Multi Ethnic Group of Modern Bright Students at the College.

Healthcare

Racial Disparities in Nationwide Mental Health Services for College Students

September 28, 2018

Amyloid plaques

Alzheimer’s Disease

New Alzheimer’s Drug Has MED Prof Cautiously Optimistic

July 30, 2018

Fatima Dainkeh

Healthcare

Black Moms, in Their Own Words

July 27, 2018

aerial view of a rural town

Healthcare

Medicaid Expansion Increases Volume and Quality of Care in Rural Areas

June 19, 2018

cluster of drug-resistant Campylobacter bacteria.

Medicine

BU-Based CARB-X Antimicrobial Partnership Gets Another $50 Million Plus

May 22, 2018

Professor Joyce Y. Wong and Professor Eric D. Kolaczyk

Accolades

AAAS Names Two BU Faculty as 2017 Fellows

December 11, 2017

Auggie, a three-year-old Boston terrier, serves as a therapy dog at the BU Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center (SARP)

University News

Therapy Dog Auggie Makes an Impact at SARP

November 15, 2017

Terriers Connect Stock image

Students

Terriers Connect Helps Students in Distress

October 10, 2017

The SPH professors hosting the Free Associations podcast: are Donald Thea (from left), Matthew Fox, and Chris Gill. Photos by Nick Gooler, School of Public Health

Marketing & Communications

SPH Podcast on Health Studies Helps You Lose Weight (Not Really)

September 11, 2017

Danny Truong and Brandon Hector work on experiment

Business & Law

MED Gives High Schoolers a Jump on Health Careers

August 11, 2017

Johnson, Morrison, Ryan, and Rosenbloom in group photo

Drugs

911 Call on the Opioid Crisis

July 28, 2017

hospital beds

Politics

POV: Senate Republicans’ Health Care Reform Bill Will Hurt Millions

June 27, 2017

Illustration about innovative breast tumor imaging research

Cancer

Breast Cancer Research

June 16, 2017

Illustration of hands holding the body of a woman symbolizing the help of patient navigators for underserved women with breast cancer

Cancer

Patient Navigators Improve Delivery of Care for Breast Cancer Patients

April 24, 2017

Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island. Photo by Starcevic/iStock

Health Care

Imagine America without Irish Immigrants

March 23, 2017

Cancer Researcher Avrum Spira, a professor of medicine, pathology, and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine

Biology

Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose

February 28, 2017

a woman holds a sign that says Don't Take Away My Healthcare outside of NY Representative Dan Donovan's office during a rally urging Republicans to preserve the Affordable Care Act, Staten Island, NY

Public Policy

What’s Ahead for the Affordable Care Act Under Trump?

January 18, 2017

Courtney Suess-Raeisinafchi, assistant professor at Boston University School of Hospitality Administration

Health Care

Checking into Hotel Hospital

October 17, 2016

Astha Singhal, assistant professor of health policy and health services research at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine

Medicine

BU Study Finds Racial Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions

October 12, 2016

BU Study Finds Racial Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions