Caroline Apovian, M.D., BU School of Medicine associate professor of medicine and pediatrics, can discuss how tough economic times are having an impact on children as struggling parents turn to cheap fast food to feed their families. Contact Dr. Caroline Apovian, 617-414-1816, capovian@bu.edu
A feared phishing attack on Facebook enabled hackers to gain passwords from some of the estimated 200 million users and send e-mails to “friends” urging them to click on links to fake websites. The site fought off a similar attack two weeks ago. Azer Bestavros, professor of computer science is familiar with many of the security issues […]
Proposed new federal taxes on sodas and other sugary drinks would generate $24 billion over the next four years. Caroline Apovian, MD, Boston Medical Center Director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center believes that is good way to lower consumption, reduce health problems and save medical costs. Contact Caroline Apovian, MD, 617-414-1816, apovian@bu.edu
Despite a rush by small companies to develop an H1N1 vaccine that could be produced in days and weeks instead of months in the current half-century old technique, any new technologies could not get through the regulatory process in time. Alexander Ozonoff, assistant professor of biostatistics said new approaches will take awhile and no new […]
The proposed Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco products is running into unexpected opposition from such health groups as the American Lung Assn., American Cancer Society and Tobacco-Free Kids. Why? They want to include electronic cigarettes, now sold on line and at mall kiosks, that contain no tobacco, produce no smoke, and help many smokers […]
Today’s warming climate changes is making pollen season last longer, as damp areas of the country will get wetter impacting those with mold allergies while in drier areas pollens and other airborne irritants will become more a problem along withy an influx of insects. What can people do? Make sure they know what their specific allergy is and be aware of […]
A Senate committee this week takes up a House-passed version of a bill that will give the FDA broad powers over the marketing and manufacturing of tobacco products — including full disclosure of cigarette, cigar and other tobacco product ingredients. It also would require tobacco companies to expand the size of warning labels, ban harmful […]
With a scheduled May 11 blast off to the Hubble Space Telescope, a seven-person maintenance and repair crew on the space shuttle Atlantis will spend 11 days on a delicate overhaul that would make it 90 times more powerful than when it was launched in 1990. This fifth and final fix will extend’s Hubble’s life of sending continuous cosmic images to 2014. […]
As global health officals ponder “what if” scenarios over the mixing of the new H1N1 flu with bird flu that is endemic in Asia and/or regular flu in the southern hemisphere, researchers are grappling with new vaccine concerns and whether in the fall, a new flu strain combination will be more virulent. Alexander Ozonoff, a BU School of Public Health assistant professor of […]
Battered women’s shelters, which historically experienced difficulty maintaining contact with abuse survivors after they leave, should consider using e-mail to stay in touch, according to Emily Rothman, assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health. She led a study of abuse survivors in 11 Massachusetts domestic violence shelters and found that the abusers never hacked into their […]
