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25 May

Bouvé Health Sciences faculty published in Health Affairs

Congratulations to two Bouvé College faculty members who have been recently published in Health Affairs. 

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13 Apr

Northeastern University launches new graduate certificate in Extreme Medicine

The Certificate in Extreme Medicine prepares medical professionals of all types who seek to provide medical services in this emerging and critical field through an asynchronous, online program.  

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7 Apr

How Bouvé College leaders are building relationships and making a global impact

At Bouvé College of Health Sciences, we’re proud to have faculty and staff whose hard work goes beyond the College and classroom.

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6 Apr

Re-imagining Public Health in Boston

On Wednesday, April 5, Bouvé's Department of Health Sciences continued its speaker series highlighting innovative approaches to advance health equity and racial justice across a range of disciplines.

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30 Mar

Bouvé faculty members selected for Northeastern’s Inclusive Impact Innovation Fund

Congratulations to several members of the Bouvé community whose proposals for Northeastern's Inclusive Impact Innovation Fund were selected for funding.

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30 Mar

Could a nasal spray deliver a novel gene therapy that stops opioid cravings and reduces relapse?

Opioid use disorder kills tens of thousands of Americans a year, upends the lives of many more and is notoriously difficult to treat. Could help come in the form of a nasal spray that delivers a novel gene therapy?

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23 Mar

EPA rule on PFAS, ‘forever chemicals,’ a step, but doesn’t address ‘regrettable substitutions’

Found in everything from clothing products and cooking appliances, to dental floss, firefighting foam and food packaging, PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” have been linked to a range of health problems.

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2 Mar

Diversity in health care remains a problem. Northeastern’s partnership with a historically Black university in Charlotte aims to fix that.

A new partnership between Northeastern’s campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Johnson C. Smith University, the city’s only historically Black university, aims to address a significant challenge in the health-care system nationwide: a lack of diversity.

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23 Feb

Are charitable food donations a double-edged sword? Donations reduce food waste, but also increase food prices

Donating to food pantries does wonders for the public image of grocery store chains. As it turns out, food donation is also great for the stores’ bottom line—but can result in higher food costs for customers.

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23 Feb

People with long COVID-19 are less likely to be employed full time, Northeastern study shows

Researchers found an association between higher levels of unemployment and those with long COVID-19, raising the question of how those living with long COVID-19 affect the nation's economy.

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8 Feb

Video games might be better for balance rehab than conventional physical therapy

Don’t throw away that Wii Fit Balance Board––it might be more valuable than you think.

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3 Feb

Will Biden plans to lift COVID emergency end free tests and vaccines?

What will happen to free testing, vaccination and treatment for COVID-19 under the Biden administration’s plan to end the coronavirus public health emergency in May?

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1 Feb

Dry January is over. Now what? Binge drinking isn’t the answer, but is there a compromise?

Congratulations on making it through dry January without a beer or glass of wine—or at least with fewer alcoholic beverages than you downed in December.

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27 Jan

Herman Saksono earns Google grant to research exercise and tech in underserved communities

Navigating the second year of his master’s degree at Khoury College nearly a decade ago, Herman Saksono — in collaboration with community groups around Boston — was zeroed in on a prevalent problem.

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27 Jan

A young mother is accused of killing her children. What is postpartum depression and psychosis?

A Massachusetts woman is accused of killing her 3- and 5-year-old children, and injuring her 7-month-old baby, raising questions how an apparently loving mother could turn on her young family.

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27 Jan

It’s the trendy diet method, but does intermittent fasting really work?

Diet trends come and go, but intermittent fasting, a form of dieting based around periods of non-eating followed by periods of concentrated eating, has somehow endured. 

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