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Health & Medicine

Might Clinically Obese Patients Have Treatment Denied Under Proposed Diagnosis Changes?

April 1, 2025

An injector for Semaglutide, a GLP-1 drug that helps many people living with diabetes and obesity. Photo via Unsplash/Haberdoedas

Health & Medicine

Do New Obesity and Diabetes Drugs Also Curb Drinking, Gambling, and Other Addictions?

February 18, 2025

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Politics

What Does Donald Trump’s Election Mean For…

November 6, 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

Photo: Two people, both masked, handle an orange and white, sickly-looking chicken. the person on the right is in full protective gear including hair net and holds a testing kit in their hands. The other stands by and watches as the chicken is handled.

Infectious Diseases

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

March 14, 2023

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Maternal Health

A Mother Charged with Killing Her Children: A Possible Explanation for the Unthinkable

January 26, 2023

Photo of Uwe Beffert’s cell biology class September 2, 2021 in Morse Auditorium. Mask are required indoors, but distancing is not. Students sit in the rows with their notebooks open and look towards Beffert who wears a black jacket and jeans.

University News

Masking “Strongly Recommended” in Crowded Indoor Spaces as COVID, Flu, Other Viruses Surge

January 12, 2023

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Health & Medicine

BU Will Hold Flu and COVID Clinics Next Week, While Bracing for RSV

November 8, 2022

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Booster Shots

BU Will Offer 800 COVID-19 Booster Shots to Eligible Students, Faculty, Staff

October 29, 2021

This easy-to-understand packaging for doses of albendazole, the antibiotic that prevents lymphatic filariasis, created by a team of BU students, won first prize at a hackathon for neglected tropical diseases

Science & Technology

BU Students’ Hackathon-Winning Project Could Help Combat a Neglected Tropical Disease

June 22, 2021

Portrait of Joseph Mizgerd, a pulmonary researcher and principal investigator, in his lab in the Medical Campus Housman Building. He wears a blue blazer and smiles.

Infectious Diseases

Tonight’s University Lecture: On the Front Lines against COVID in the Lab, Science Will Win

November 17, 2020

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University News

Administration Updates COVID-19 Testing Requirement for Category 3

October 5, 2020

Photo of Renata Mukai (MED’23) getting a flu shot from Sara Khattab (MED’24) during last week’s flu clinic at the Medical Campus. Khattab wears scrubs and both wear blue face masks.

Public Health

Get Your Flu Shot. It’s Mandatory This Year

September 29, 2020

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Coronavirus

BU Details Campuswide COVID-19 Testing Plan for Fall

June 17, 2020

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Coronavirus

SPH Dean to Chair Statewide Emergency Task Force on Coronavirus & Equity

March 11, 2020

Security personnel check the temperature of a passenger in the Wharf at the Yangtze River on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

Health & Medicine

BU Closely Monitoring Coronavirus Outbreak

January 22, 2020

Teachers and graduate students in the Boston University Cadaver Lab advanced anatomy class point and discuss features of a dissected human heart

Life Sciences

Have You Held a Human Heart? An Afternoon Inside BU’s Cadaver Lab

December 18, 2019

Packs of JUUL e-cigarettes on a display shelf focused on a pack of Menthol flavored vape package.

Health & Medicine

Why Is Menthol So Addictive to Vapers?

December 3, 2019

A child refugee in syria

Public Health

2019 University Lecture: Muhammad Zaman Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis

October 21, 2019

2019 University Lecture: Muhammad Zaman Will Address the Global Refugee Crisis