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Climate Change

How Is Climate Change Affecting New England?

March 12, 2025

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Public Health

“Unprecedented” Medicaid Cuts Could Cripple Health Program, BU Experts Warn

February 4, 2025

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University News

BU and Federal Investigation Underway into Hacking of Framingham Heart Study Data

December 14, 2024

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Supreme Court

Supreme Court to Hear Case about Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth

December 3, 2024

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Student Life

BU Undergrad Helps Hurricane Victims as a Red Cross Volunteer

October 18, 2024

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Health & Medicine

Can Animal Organ Transplants Save Thousands of Dying People?

May 24, 2024

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University News

Dean Sandro Galea Leaving BU’s School of Public Health for WashU Opportunity

May 6, 2024

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Alabama Court Ruling

Alabama Court Ruling That Frozen Embryos Are Children and Its Impact on the Future of IVF Treatment

February 22, 2024

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Health & Medicine

These Drugs Are Changing the Fight against Obesity

January 19, 2024

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Public Health

Lessons for Public Health from the Pandemic

January 12, 2024

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Public Health

Truths and Myths, Joy and Stigma—Life at BMC’s GenderCare Center

November 1, 2023

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Health & Medicine

How First US Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Could Revolutionize Reproductive Health

July 14, 2023

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Maternal Health

US Olympian Tori Bowie’s Death Underscores Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States

June 26, 2023

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HEALTHCARE

One Year after Roe v. Wade Was Overturned, What’s the State of Abortion Care in the United States?

June 21, 2023

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Health & Medicine

Supreme Court Upholds FDA Approval of Mifepristone: What’s Next?

April 24, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Gender-Affirming Care is Under Siege

April 21, 2023

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BOSTON MARATHON

How Has Trauma Care Changed 10 Years after Boston Marathon Bombings?

April 13, 2023

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Healthcare

Judge’s Ruling to Invalidate Abortion Pill Ruling Could Impact Other FDA-Approved Drugs

April 11, 2023

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Infectious Diseases

Bird Flu Is Making Headlines but Doesn’t Threaten a Pandemic…Yet

March 14, 2023

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Public Health

POV: Massachusetts Can Finally Measure the Health of Primary Care

March 3, 2023

POV: Massachusetts Can Finally Measure the Health of Primary Care