Researching Fall Prevention in HIV Patients
Up to one-third of middle-aged people living with HIV experience falls each year, many resulting in fractures. Why those falls happen, and what can be done to prevent them, will be examined by a...
View ArticleHelping Student Scientists Do Health Research at Home
When you visit your doctor, she will ask you about your diet and exercise, whether or not you smoke, and if you drink alcohol. These factors all affect your health. But the community you live in might...
View ArticleIoC 2016 Survey of Mayors Finds Poverty a Top Issue
The nation’s mayors say that poverty is the most pressing economic issue facing their communities—more so than either the shrinking middle class or income inequality. That finding is the key takeaway...
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Understanding Zika’s Spread
In 2016, the Zika virus alarmed both researchers and the public with its unexpected spread across the Americas, and Davidson Hamer, a professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, School of...
View ArticleMapping a Path to Better Oral Health
Dentists aren’t the only people who influence how we take care of our teeth; our friends and family play a big role, too. That is the conclusion of Brenda Heaton, an assistant professor of health...
View ArticleNEIDL Researchers Present Case for Next-Level Research
Infectious disease experts and administrators from Boston University told the Boston Biosafety Committee (BBC) on March 6, 2017, that the ability to conduct research at Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) at...
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BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget
During his election campaign, Donald Trump barely mentioned science, and what he did have to say about it—that climate change is a hoax, that he’d heard a lot about the National Institutes of Health...
View ArticleNew Bedford Harbor Identified as Major Source of Airborne PCBs
Sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the bottom of New Bedford Harbor is the number-one source of airborne PCBs in the neighborhoods surrounding the port, according to a...
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Putting Cities on the Climate Map
More than half of the people on the planet live in cities, yet cities have been largely ignored by climate scientists. But city climate is important, because it can tell us a great deal about how...
View ArticleCan Boston Be a Green City by 2050?
By the middle of the century, Boston hopes to fill its streets with electric cars, cover its rooftops with solar panels, and rid its skies of all carbon emissions. In 2007, Boston joined cities around...
View ArticleFlavored E-Cigs Linked to Possible Cardiovascular Disease
A laboratory study by BU researchers has found that additives used to flavor e-cigarettes can damage the cells that line blood vessels and may reduce the production of nitric oxide, increasing the risk...
View ArticleEggs of Urban Chickens Contaminated with Lead
Chicken ownership has become increasingly popular in the United States in recent years, including in cities. Although wanting more nutritious, tastier, and safer eggs is an often-cited motivation for...
View ArticleUS Mayors: Blacks, Trans, Muslim, and Immigrants Face Discrimination
An extraterrestrial eavesdropping on earthly communications in 2018 would think the United States is beset by discrimination—racial, gender, religious, and xenophobic. According to the country’s...
View ArticleMonica L. Wang
Q&A Monica L. Wang BU researcher named one of 2018’s Ten Outstanding Young Leaders by Boston Chamber of Commerce Monica L. Wang View Profile Monica L. Wang, an assistant professor of community...
View ArticleGun-Related Deaths Have Decreased Overall American Life Expectancy
In 2016, the last year for which the CDC provides numbers, 35,353 people died from gun injuries, the majority of them suicides. In other words, out of every 100,000 people living in the US that year,...
View ArticleFeeling Stressed about the Environment? You’re Not Alone.
When I close my eyes and imagine my favorite place, I picture the rolling white sand beaches on the south shore of Long Island, New York. I picture the Fire Island Lighthouse poking up through the lush...
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