Family’s health scare helps student find calling

May 2, 2013 by Angela Herring

Indus­trial engi­neering major Kendall Sanderson studies how to use sys­tems engi­neering to stream­line the health­care industry.

3Qs: What to know about this year’s flu season

January 11, 2013 by Casey Bayer

Mark Dou­glass, an asso­ciate clin­ical pro­fessor of phar­macy, dis­cusses how to pro­tect against the flu—which is expe­ri­encing its worst out­break in a decade—and the impor­tance of get­ting a flu vaccine.

Understanding the economics of healthcare

December 17, 2012 by Angela Herring

Doc­toral stu­dents in the phar­macy pro­gram syn­the­sized eco­nomic and clin­ical infor­ma­tion in class and then pre­sented their find­ings at a national meeting in Las Vegas.

‘Popping in’ on the latest research

November 20, 2012 by Angela Herring

From brain com­puter inter­faces to gyro­scopes, the next gen­er­a­tion of health­care tech­nolo­gies have some­thing for everyone — and they’re being devel­oped in North­eastern labs.

Global Health Initiative to address neglected tropical diseases

October 16, 2012 by Angela Herring

Chem­istry and chem­ical biology pro­fessor Michael Pol­lastri announced the launch of the Inte­grated Ini­tia­tive in Global Health at his Col­lege of Sci­ence Col­lo­quium talk last Friday.

3Qs: The future of the Affordable Care Act

June 11, 2012 by Casey Bayer

Pro­fessor Kristin Madison exam­ines the poten­tial out­comes of the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on Pres­i­dent Obama’s sig­na­ture health-​​care legislation.

Professor appointed to IRS advisory committee

June 7, 2012 by Jason Kornwitz

Pro­fessor Gary Young has been selected to serve on the Internal Rev­enue Service’s Advi­sory Com­mittee on Tax Exempt and Gov­ern­ment Entities.

Bouvé faculty brief legislators on health policy

May 11, 2012 by Matt Collette

Terry Fulmer, dean of the Bouvé Col­lege of Health Sci­ences, led a fac­ulty briefing on health-​​care policy at the Mass­a­chu­setts State House on Thursday.

A class project spurs health care mobility

July 13, 2011 by Jason Kornwitz

North­eastern grad­uate stu­dents design a strategy to expand the impact of a mobile clinic offering Boston res­i­dents free health screen­ings and coaching.

Health care lessons, from inside a new culture

June 24, 2011 by Matt Collette

Dia­logue of Civ­i­liza­tions expe­ri­ence in Israel teaches Bouvé stu­dents to focus on the com­mon­al­i­ties, acknowl­edge the differences

Building better cancer detection

June 15, 2011 by Greg St. Martin

Engi­neering under­grad­u­ates con­struct a micro­scope that can sim­plify and speed up the diag­nosis of skin cancer

Bringing the ‘human element’ to engineering

June 9, 2011 by Jason Kornwitz

North­eastern hosts con­fer­ence that explores how engi­neering solu­tions can help repair the U.S. health-​​care system